From: "Roderick Klein" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:56:03 +0100
Reply-To: "Roderick Klein" <roderick@mensys.nl>
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]Re: SOCKET.SYS crash - I give up
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 16:42:46 -0700 (PDT), Rick R. wrote:

>Hey man, THANKS RODERICK.
>  I nknow I sounded furious back there, but fact is I just invested another $1000 or so into my OS/2 setup (bought new disks and application SW) and now this box crashes 
on me all time in the middle of a new project launch.
>  I mean I used to get SOCKET.SYS errors for years (evenso I do remember that at one time those patches seemed to work), but with my increased TCP/IP traffic things 
just got out of hand.
>  And yes,  I do agree XPI add-ons should not cause the box to crash.
>  Hang maybe, but not crash - and the fancy thing is that most of those XPIs actually work just fine. Until the crash dump happens.
>  All I want is for the crashes to stop. I know Windoze is not flawless as well.
>   
>  Just during the last 24 hours I had to reboot by Windoze partition twice to get out of Internet Explorer - which had hung with ~40+ open windows.
>  But those were reboots, NOT CRASHES.
>  You know how long it takes for a 60GB HPFS partition to recover?
>  And that happened while I had a client ask me for data I got stored on my system!
>   
>  Please give me an e-mail addresss where I can send you all those files to and I'll do it right away.
>   
>  I'm just frusted with those stupid crashes.
>  I mean, whoever wrote that stack must have had the same issue, as I had it on 3 different HW platforms. Why the heck didn't they correct it right there & then??

Send me a private email to rwklein@mensys.nl

Roderick Klein
Mensys