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Subject: Re: a fatal Shredder 8 hash resizing bug

Author: Kurt Utzinger

Date: 07:18:56 03/13/04

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On March 13, 2004 at 10:14:20, William Penn wrote:

>On March 13, 2004 at 10:04:43, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On March 13, 2004 at 09:24:50, William Penn wrote:
>>
>>>Fatal error when changing hash size in Shredder 8 (native CB GUI). This has
>>>happened many times. It doesn't always happen and seems unpredictable, but
>>>happens perhaps about 25% of the time. It may relate to having infinite analysis
>>>mode active & running when changing hash size, perhaps with several lines of
>>>analysis being produced, but I'm not sure. This is a valid & legal installation
>>>of Shredder 8 from the purchased CD (not a crack copy). I have reinstalled
>>>Shredder 8 several times. I'm running Windows XP Home (SP1) with all of the
>>>latest updates, Athlon XP 2400+ processor at 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM. Typically I am
>>>changing the hash size from 512MB to 256MB when this happens, or vice versa, or
>>>something similar - nothing extreme.
>>>
>>>Faulting application chessprogram8.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module
>>>shredder8.eng, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00002746.
>>>
>>>0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
>>>0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
>>>0010: 75 72 65 20 20 63 68 65   ure  che
>>>0018: 73 73 70 72 6f 67 72 61   ssprogra
>>>0020: 6d 38 2e 65 78 65 20 30   m8.exe 0
>>>0028: 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 69   .0.0.0 i
>>>0030: 6e 20 73 68 72 65 64 64   n shredd
>>>0038: 65 72 38 2e 65 6e 67 20   er8.eng
>>>0040: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20   0.0.0.0
>>>0048: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse
>>>0050: 74 20 30 30 30 30 32 37   t 000027
>>>0058: 34 36 0d 0a               46..
>>>
>>>WP
>>
>>     This problem has never happened here. I am working with
>>     Win98 SE. Do you alway choose "Clear hashtables" before
>>     changing the hash size?
>>     Kurt
>
>No. I seldom clear the hashtables manually. I let the system do it
>automatically.
>WP

       I do not understand how can you let the system do it
       automatically? If you simply change hash size the
       hashtables may not be cleared and this could be the
       reason for your problem.
       Kurt



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