[vpn-help] BSOD/crash worse in beta 4

[William Baum]

Weird.. My box in question is an i7 860 (4 cores plus hyperthreading)  
and has been completely stable with beta 3.

P55 chipset with dual channel mem rather than triple is the only diff  
that jumps to mind..

--Bill

Sent from my iPhone.  Please excuse brevity, typos, etc..

On Feb 26, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Tim Mensch <tim-shrewsoft at bitgems.com>  
wrote:

> I definitely continued to see a crash with 2.1.6 beta 3 on my i7  
> desktop (it runs 8 concurrent threads). When I checked the minidump  
> files, it was crashing in a completely different place than 2.1.5  
> crashed, though. I've already forwarded all minidumps to Matthew off- 
> list.
>
> I haven't tried 2.1.6 beta 4 on my desktop, since 2.1.5 rc3 was  
> actually stable on my laptop (also Windows 7 x64, but only 2 threads  
> and not as fast). Next week I'll try beta 4 on my desktop, but since  
> I just got a BSOD on my laptop using beta 4, I'm not eager to do the  
> experiment.
>
> Tim
>
> Kenneth Payne wrote:
>> My experience is the same, daily crashes with 2.1.5 running Win7  
>> 64bit.  Upgraded to 2.1.6 beta 4 and not a single crash in weeks.   
>> Thanks!!!!
>>
>> I have noticed when rebooting, windows occasionally does not shut  
>> down completely, requiring a hard reset - but this is just an FYI,  
>> I do not know if it is related to Shrew VPN client, but I have only  
>> experienced this issue since upgrading to 2.1.6.  It may just be  
>> coincidental, but thought I'd throw that out in case anyone else  
>> has experienced the same thing.
>>
>> -Kenneth
>>
>> On 2/26/2010 12:46 PM, William Baum wrote:
>>> Fwiw, I also had crashes almost daily with 2.1.5. And have Bren
>>> running 2.1.6 beta 3 (not 4) for weeks without a single crash on  
>>> win7
>>> 64-bit.
>>>
>>> --Bill
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone.  Please excuse brevity, typos, etc..
>>>
>>> On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:24 AM, Tim Mensch<tim-shrewsoft at bitgems.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I've been running 2.1.5 successfully for several weeks on my  
>>>> laptop,
>>>> where it would crash once or twice per day on my desktop. In
>>>> preparation
>>>> for submitting my last bug request, I decided to try 2.1.6 beta 4  
>>>> on
>>>> my
>>>> laptop.
>>>>
>>>> That was yesterday. Later yesterday, I got a BSOD/crash, and this
>>>> morning my laptop failed to return from sleep, which it hasn't done
>>>> for
>>>> months. I haven't analyzed the minidump yet to be sure it's the
>>>> ShrewSoft client, but for now I'm rolling back to 2.1.5. I could  
>>>> send
>>>> the minidump if you want to take a look.
>>>>
>>>> As a reminder, my desktop and laptop are both Windows 7 x64; my
>>>> desktop
>>>> is an i7, my laptop a Centrino 2.
>>>>
>>>> Tim
>>>>
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