Anyone got any clues who can figure this out?
This installation has had these crashes since beginning.


On 2/4/05 1:04 PM, "Roland Dumas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This is not a new problem. Has been true since this was first installed.
> 
> Witango hums along, medium to light traffic (0-20 user sessions at a time,
> typically)
> 
> Randomly, witango will crash.
> 
> Frequency varies all over the place. It gets up to 1-3 times a day and does
> that for a few weeks, calms down to one a week, or goes to zero for a couple
> of months, and then another storm of crashes.
> 
> The installation is identical to another, which never crashes. Both are
> Xserves, OS X Server 10.2.8, same ODBC, same version of witango, same
> installation of mysql... Except for RAM
> 
> The crash log shows that every crash has something to do with odbc. I can't
> understand what the crash log is telling me, but I started to suspect the
> RAM, either bad RAM or insufficient. The crashing machine had 256MB and the
> non-crashing 1.5G
> 
> So, I harped at the IT guys until they added RAM to = 1.5G. Witango crashed
> within a couple of hours. No traffic to speak of during that period.
> 
> So I pull up the crash log and say to the IT guys (with more confidence than
> my zero knowledge provides), "Lookit, same address! Must be the RAM is
> intermitten or something. Bet it's finding the same old bad SIMM and
> experiencing the same hiccup"
> 
> They say, "BS, but nice try. If the memory has changed, and error is
> resulting from some thread calling the same memory location, than whatever
> thread is calling the memory location is suspect. It's your application, you
> idiot."
> 
> Does anyone in this universe understand how this works and how to find and
> cure this problem? It's been true since day 1 for this machine.
> 
> 
> Samples from crash log:
> 
> Date/Time:  2005-02-04 06:11:12 -0800
> OS Version: 10.2.8 (Build 6R73)
> Host:       www.
> 
> Command:    witangod
> PID:        625
> 
> Exception:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
> Codes:      KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS (0x0001) at 0x73002b54
> 
> 
> 
> Thread 7 Crashed:
>  #0   0x94f92e68 in _iodbcdm_driverload
>  #1   0x94f94f64 in SQLDriverConnect
>  #2   0x0016e9f8 in 0x16e9f8
>  #3   0x00047908 in 0x47908
>  #4   0x000689b0 in 0x689b0
>  #5   0x000252d8 in 0x252d8
>  #6   0x00025678 in 0x25678
>  #7   0x000197e0 in 0x197e0
>  #8   0x0001a1a4 in 0x1a1a4
>  #9   0x00017e0c in 0x17e0c
>  #10  0x0001ac90 in 0x1ac90
>  #11  0x0014e7d8 in 0x14e7d8
>  #12  0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Last year's crash
> 
> 
> 
> Thread 7 Crashed:
>  #0   0x94f92e68 in _iodbcdm_driverload
>  #1   0x94f94f64 in SQLDriverConnect
>  #2   0x0016e9f8 in 0x16e9f8
>  #3   0x00047908 in 0x47908
>  #4   0x000689b0 in 0x689b0
>  #5   0x000252d8 in 0x252d8
>  #6   0x00025678 in 0x25678
>  #7   0x000197e0 in 0x197e0
>  #8   0x0001a1a4 in 0x1a1a4
>  #9   0x00018650 in 0x18650
>  #10  0x0007cfbc in 0x7cfbc
>  #11  0x0009e134 in 0x9e134
>  #12  0x0009db9c in 0x9db9c
>  #13  0x00019a94 in 0x19a94
>  #14  0x0001a1d4 in 0x1a1d4
>  #15  0x00017e0c in 0x17e0c
>  #16  0x0001ac90 in 0x1ac90
>  #17  0x0014e7d8 in 0x14e7d8
>  #18  0x90020c28 in _pthread_body
> 
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Roland Dumas
> Roberts Information Services
> 310 W. Bellevue Avenue
> San Mateo CA 94402
> 650-347-1373
> 415-412-9300 (cell)
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Roberts Information Services
310 W. Bellevue Avenue
San Mateo CA 94402
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415-412-9300 (cell)
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