Crash caused by System Time device?

dlmorgan999 · Post by **dlmorgan999** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:22 pm

I've finally started trying to reduce the number of crashes I see with my HB server. I'm working on debugging my Omni plugin, but I also see fairly regular crashes from other sources.

One that I see occasionally is from the System Time device. Just a few minutes ago I was sitting here watching a DVD - not doing anything active with HB. I had a remote desktop window opened on the server so I could see if it crashed and all of a sudden it did. Here is the contents of the dump file:

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====== Begin Dump - Tuesday, March 07, 2006 14:14:12 ======
Server Version = 2.22

==================================
======== House Server Thread =======
==================================
Thread Type    = Device Thread [System Time] - [System Time]
Thread ID   = B4C
Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Fault address:  004DEFB5 01:000DDFB5 C:\Program Files\Meedio\Meedio HouseBot\HouseBotServer.exe

Registers:
EAX:08D67FA8
EBX:00000000
ECX:00F42400
EDX:00000000
ESI:07911C40
EDI:00F588C0
CS:EIP:001B:004DEFB5
SS:ESP:0023:09BFFE4C  EBP:0902B550
DS:0023  ES:0023  FS:003B  GS:0000
Flags:00010206

Call stack:
Address   Frame
004DEFB5  0902B550  CxImage::`copy constructor closure'+DD545
07911C40  005829C4  0000:00000000 
004E09E0  005829C4  CxImage::`copy constructor closure'+DEF70
004E09E0  004E00C0  CxImage::`copy constructor closure'+DEF70
FFFFFF58  E8F18B56  0000:00000000 


====== End Dump ======

Can anyone give me any suggestions of how I might troubleshoot this? Has anyone else experienced a crash like this?

-- Dave

PT · Post by PT » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:00 pm

Dave

The sytem time device does seem to cause a lot of problems. I have managed to get my server/housebot server running a lot better/longer by reducing the amount of calls for system time or scripts relating to this.

Countdown timer is usefull and also using standard vb time codes for getting around some of the problems I had.

If you wish I will keep a look out for the type of crashes.

Maybe an ongoing poll of crash messages would be usefull for all users in the forum .

dlmorgan999 · Post by **dlmorgan999** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:50 pm

Thanks for the feedback PT. I think I'll do a review of my configuration to find all the places I refer to System Time and see if I can do it differently. As part of my process of reducing errors I have been planning to generate a "histogram" of sorts listing all the errors I've received in a given period of time and how many times I received each one. I'll work on this tonight and post it.

-- Dave