[sambar] Server Shutting Down Unexpectedly {01}

[Vince Long]

I've trolled through the messages in the archive and haven't found my problem listed to I thought I'd go ahead and try the "group mind."   I've been running Sambar for my school for several years, migrating through 4.X through 5.0.  It has run flawlessly.  I was running 5.0 (http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/) on a Pentium 150 w/ 64 mb RAM.  Not the most robust box but it works well.  I also run 4.4 on a second server (http://broncgeeks.billings.k12.mt.us/) with similar hardware except that it's under Win98.   I recently decided to play with the search engine on the box running 5.0 and attempted to index a few directories.  Each directory had 300-400 text files in them with each file being about 60K in size.  I was indexing them separately and the first couple directories indexed OK but then the server would stop and hang.  I look at the desktop and I can see the Sambar icon in the tray next to the clock.  I move the cursor over it and it disappears.   I messed with the NT virtual memory setting a bit and reindexed but had the same problems.  I gave up and deleted the index references in the search directory and in search.ini.  I restart Sambar and after a few minutes and a few hits, it shuts down.  I tried upgrading to 5.2 and had the same problems.  When I upgraded I tried both "upgrade" and a complete new installation.  With the latter I manually configured config.ini,etc. and then only thing I moved from the old installation were the page counter files, password and group files, and the contents of my CGI-BIN.  I enabled Watcher but still have the same problem with it shutting down after about 5 minutes.   Thinking that this might be an NT issue I moved everything to a different machine (Win98) and have the same problem with 5.2.  I used to run 4.4 on this machine so relaunched it and all is well.  Hmmm....   In the meantime I upgraded my 4.4 (http://broncgeeks.billings.k12.mt.us/) machine to 5.2 and it runs fine.  So, I copied 4.4 from it, put it back on the NT machine, copied in my password, group, and CGI files, and now it runs fine.   So, what I have I done wrong?  It seems that the search engine was the source of the problem.  When setting up Sambar from scratch or upgrading, if I bring over anything from the files that I did that on the one that used the search engine it seems to bring the problem with it.    Any clues?   Thanks,   Vince     ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe please go to http://www.sambar.ch/list/