BBS Crash with Windows XP

[Shalafi]

I am having a crash on my bbs, it has happened a few times now.

Below is a picture of the XP error.

Has anyone else run into this?

Anyone know a resolution?

Click for Image Link of BBS CRASH

[BearFather]

Never seen an error like that, but in your wgserv directory look for .out or .err files and they will have a ton info about the crash and track it down better.

[Shalafi]

If I reboot windows XP every 3 days or so, I don't get the crashes.

Was wondering if anyone has a command, to add in the cleanup bat file, to reboot windows XP?

Make it more automatic.

[Shalafi]

If I reboot windows XP every 3 days or so, I don't get the crashes.

Was wondering if anyone has a command, to add in the cleanup bat file, to reboot windows XP?

Make it more automatic.

[BearFather]

well you could run the shutdown command with the reboot flag, But you will need to set WG to run as a service so it starts back up. Also might have to do an auto-login to get the service to kick on.

[Shalafi]

So my virtual XP crapped out.

I was able to take the server out of the virtual hard disk and copy it into a copy of my virtual XP that was one year old.

So , the board didn't have these windows XP crashes a year ago, so I am hoping I am good.

My virtual XP runs on a copy of windows 7.

Nothing really changed, except that the Virtual hard disk keeps growing in size, even though not much data is being added to it.

I wonder at a certain virtual hard disk size if window XP has a hard time managing it.

Its 50GB now and it was 58GB when I started having these issues.

I forget what the average hard disk size was back during windows XP era.

My Pentium 1 had 1GB HDD which was huge for its time.

Also, I should look up how to reduce the size. I tried disk cleanup then disk defrag, it didn't change the size much.

[BearFather]

Once it grows it does not shrink. In windows 95 days I kinda remember 8G being a limit, but your past that so memory might be shit. My bbs is only running on a 4G drive, but it is full.

If you do backups that will make it grow. Also your log files can be pretty large so look at those to trim space.

[Shalafi]

Sounds good.

Thanks for the advice.


I can turn off my backups to just save on the USB drive attached and reduce what I monitor in my major mud log.

[BearFather]

Don't disable, just cleanup now and then. I once a year go thru and delete any backups on the host over a year, and clean down my mud logs. My bbs logs I rotate daily so I can parse smaller files, and these are sent to my network storage.

My backup system is a little redundant and bullet proof, I lost my board a few times to vm crashes. So now I back the mud files daily and they are moved off to my network storage, it rotates out all logs and create blank ones at cleanup. Then I also do VM level backups that are pushed to my network storage and keeps three days worth, then it pushes those to my host. My host is backed up nightly to the cloud. I do not want to loose the board again!

[Shalafi]

Yah I feel you.