[Gambas-user] PING > Benoît (ServerSocket)

[Jean-Yves F. Barbier]

Ron a écrit :
> Kad Mann wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 14:45 +0100, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote:
>>   
>>> Benoît Minisini a écrit :
>>> ...
>>>     
>>>> But if rebooting your Linux server does not make the application work again, I 
>>>> can't really suspect Gambas, as it does not save anything on the hard disk, 
>>>> especially the network component.
>>>>
>>>> Did you test the connection with telnet, or any other non-Gambas program? Did 
>>>> you test another socket server application not made in Gambas?
>>>>
>>>> The only possibility I see would be a memory corruption in the network 
>>>> component - it is possible, I didn't write it :-). By reading the source code 
>>>> of the Listen() method, I didn't see anything that could lead to that. But I 
>>>> will check again.
>>>>       
>>> May be a RAM is corrupted, running a full memtest86+ could reveal that
>>> (well @ least 2 tests: while physically swapping RAMs between tests in order
>>> to completely test low addresses of the 1st one)
>>>     
>> Gawd! I've got 8Gig to test. I'll take the advice, just to make sure but
>> the problem has happened on two machines with the very same symptoms.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>   
> Just thinking out loud maybe it helps.
> 
> You talked about a Windows machine at one end, maybe also check its 
> firewall and antivirus settings, if any.
> I know for example Kaspersky 2010 sits between all the network 
> connections you have, maybe some strange pattern is seen as evil, and 
> the connection gets cut off in the middle. Check logs.

Yeah, absolutely right.

Moreover, back in 2001, norton antivirus clobbered the network (10Mb)
down from 780KB/s to 140KB/s even after uninstallation (!)

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