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Does the GUI version not write out a summary.log file? - 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 > > >>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 >> >> >>>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? >>> >>> - John >>> >>> >>>>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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