[Uni-verse] possible maxbug

[Martin]

> Martin wrote:
> > Hi.
> > We localized it mainly to occur on dual-core machines.
> > Located?
> > = On dual-core machines.
> 
> I think Gert meant geographically, i.e. are the troublesome machines
> here in Sweden, or in Hong Kong (or some other place)?

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.

> > We tested it on one of eriks dual-core win32 machine... instantly
> crashes
> > after a few request, always reoccurring.
> 
> 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 ...

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.

> 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.
> 
> > 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
> general.
> 
> That's ... too bad.

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).

> > I personally have a lot of problems keeping it running (on win32) for a
> > session if I am debugging/developing.
> 
> 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.
> 

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