[Uni-verse] possible maxbug

[Gert Svensson]

Martin,

my question is very simple: Could you bring machine over to KTH for 
testing and debugging?

Best Regards
Gert

Martin wrote:

>>Martin wrote:
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>>>Hi.
>>>We localized it mainly to occur on dual-core machines.
>>>Located?
>>>= On dual-core machines.
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>>I think Gert meant geographically, i.e. are the troublesome machines
>>here in Sweden, or in Hong Kong (or some other place)?
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>Anywhere you run it on a dual-core machine from my experience.
>They have normal dell machines in Hong Kong too, no difference.
>Actually probably all your machines are manufactured there... so we should
>probably drop the localization thing.
>Just test it on a win32/xp dual-core machine.
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>>>We tested it on one of eriks dual-core win32 machine... instantly
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>>crashes
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>>>after a few request, always reoccurring.
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>>That is very interesting. Is it on this machine that it is also
>>mysterously impossible to run the server in a debugger? We need
>>to figure out *where* in the code it crashes, in order to do some-
>>thing about it ...
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>No it did since you had an error or rather uninitialized variable in the
>code that eskil pointed out.
>Then why it invokes the debugger is still a mystery.
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>>What are "the normal win32 crashes"? My impression is that Verse is not
>>prone to crashing, but I don't run it a lot in Win32, personally.
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>>>Same with very fast, normal etc other win32 machines.
>>>So it seems those bugs only occur on dual-core machines.
>>>But it's hard to say since it crashes from time to time on win32 in
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>>general.
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>>That's ... too bad.
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>Too bad?
>I heard other software's also has some problems on dual-core machines.
>Especially if they use performance counters, and you do (according to
>eskil).
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>>>I personally have a lot of problems keeping it running (on win32) for a
>>>session if I am debugging/developing.
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>>This is certainly something that I would like to see addressed, if
>>the general impression of Verse in Win32 is that it crashes all the
>>time, we have a problem.
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>Yes we have.
>Personally It does not matter if I run the server on my Sony Vaio laptop or
>my homebuilt stationary, it crashes frequently.
>
>Brg
>Martin
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