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Subject: Re: a fatal Shredder 8 hash resizing bug

Author: William Penn

Date: 07:50:57 03/13/04

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On March 13, 2004 at 10:18:56, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>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

I have always let the system do it automatically. This bug did not happen with
prior versions of the native CB GUI. Also I have never seen it with the Classic
Shredder 6 GUI. It is something new with the Shredder 8 GUI.
WP



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