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#838 - 03/01/03 09:42 AM Multiple copies cause crash in Win98SE and WinME?
zapped Offline


Registered: 03/01/03
Posts: 2
Loc: Austin, TX
I'm a longtime user of pingploter freeware & I just downloaded the latest release (2.30.1) of the full version for eval. I'm experiencing an O/S crash after a few hours running multiple copies of pingplotter under Win98SE (desktop) & WinME (laptop). Details follow.

I'm running multiple pingplotter sessions simultanously to help me debug RoadRunner cable problems. I'm pinging to www.yahoo.com, ftp.onr.com, news-server.houston.rr.com, and another server located at the company I work for. Everything runs fine for at least an hour or two - including auto-saves to a .pp2 file for each session. But when I return to the computer in the morning or after being away for a couple of hours, it will either be locked up (Win98SE) or have re-booted itself (WinME). The Win98SE "lock-up" isn't a BSOD, it's just a black screen, and a ctl-alt-del doesn't help. Have to reboot the Win98SE machine.

I did a test last night where I started the four pingplotters on the WinME laptop before starting a DVD (Amelie, great flick), and was sitting next to the laptop when it gave a loud BEEP and re-booted. Nothing else running at the time & it was a fresh boot before I started pingplotter.

[EDIT: Each pingplotter session is pinging unlimited number of times, 10 second intervals, graphing last 7 samples, auto-save to default filename/location, 56b packets, no other changes I can think of]

[EDIT #2: My crashes under WinME are reliable - every time. But sometimes Win98SE _will_ run for 8 hours or more without a lockup. FWIW, here are .pp2 files from each machine: Win98SE pp2 file, WinME pp2 file ]

Desktop Win98SE = Asus mobo, Athlon XP 1800, 512MB single stick DDR 2100 memory, GeForce4 Ti4200 graphics, 80GB+100GB W.D. hard drives, DVD-ROM, DVD+RW burner, CD-RW burner.

Laptop WinME = Toshiba Satellite 3005-S303, PIII-850, 256MB memory, 20GB hard drive, DVD-ROM/CD-RW burner.

BTW, it's an awesome program that I'm looking forward to registering assuming this kink is fixed in the new beta. Or perhaps there is a work-around? TIA,
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#839 - 03/01/03 10:41 AM Re: Multiple copies cause crash in Win98SE and WinME? [Re: zapped]
Pete Ness Offline



Registered: 08/30/99
Posts: 1106
Loc: Boise, Idaho
Hi.

This isn't a problem we've heard about before, so there aren't a whole lot of things we have in the "bag-o-tricks" for workarounds. To be honest, our 9x/ME testing plans have not included long-term multiple instance testing (we do this a TON on the NT platforms, but haven't done it much on the 9x platforms).

One thing that would be useful is to have you try our latest beta version, as the engine system has been mostly rewritten. Because this is only in beta, you'll need to be a licensed user to run it. I'll send you a temporary key in email so you can give that a whirl and see what it does for you (also, because it's a beta, it has some additional logging that might enable us to locate the problem if it does still happen in the beta).

- Pete

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#840 - 03/01/03 11:12 AM Re: Multiple copies cause crash in Win98SE and Win [Re: Pete Ness]
Anonymous
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Wow, with support like that you've GOT my $15 whether my problem is eventually fixed or not. Got the temp-key but I immediately registered anyway just now.

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#841 - 03/01/03 11:13 AM Re: Multiple copies cause crash in Win98SE and Win
zapped Offline


Registered: 03/01/03
Posts: 2
Loc: Austin, TX
Oops, that last post was from me (zapped, austin, texas). Didn't realize I was posting anonymousely <img src="/forums/images/icons/blush.gif" alt="" />
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