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Jason - Well, theory #1 is out. We've now had the exact same problem, with the exact same setup on two completely separate machines. And we're running the latest 10.3.9 on both machines as well. The failure only seems to happen once every few days. Should I get back towards e-mailing you the config and data files back-channel again? One thing I'm still confused about here, though, is that the problem only occurs with the command line version, not with the GUI one? - John PS. It always seems to fail on processing the first day or two of stats. If it makes it past that, then it seems to make it all the way through... >John May wrote: >> >> I have no idea why one machine does it and the other doesn't. I've >> run ram tests, etc, etc and just can't figure out a difference >> between the two. > >I have two leading theories at this point. > >Very subtly bad RAM could cause this. There have been reports of RAM >that works almost all of the time, passes all of the memory testers, but >when replaced fixes otherwise inexplicably unstable machines. >Particularly when you have more than one DIMM of RAM, if the first one >works the machine can prove very stable unless you are running something >like Summary which uses a great deal of RAM. Switching machines is a >good test for this, particularly if the machines were purchased at >different times and/or have RAM from different vendors. > >There was a problem with earlier versions of OS X where heavy network >activity would corrupt the contents of application memory, but only very >rarely. At least some cases of this are fixed in 10.3.9, but it seems >possible that Apple hasn't fixed all of them. If this is the problem, >switching machines in the same configuration won't make any difference, >but switching to a machine behind a more restrictive firewall or >disconnected from the Internet would solve the problem. > >Of course this could still be a bug in Summary, and I am still testing >for that. If anyone has a configuration that fails frequently I would >love to get details about your setup to see if there are any clues I can >use to isolate the problem. > >Jason > >-- >Jason@Summary.Net -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- John May : President <http://www.pointinspace.com> Point In Space Internet Solutions jmay@pointinspace.com Professional Lasso / PHP / MySQL / FileMaker Pro Hosting ------------- Go to <http://summary.net/list.html> to update subscription info.
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