OK, this is starting to get really annoying. I think it's time I posted this to php-general, and see if there is anything anyone knows about it. For a while now (about two years), I have been developing on a laptop configured as listed below. I'll provide the versions of software I am currently working with, although the problems I will describe have been occurring with regularity over several previous versions of the software. HP Pavilion zx5000 notebook computer 1 GB RAM 120 GB HD Windows XP Pro (SP2) PHP 5.1.6 (running as ISAPI) MySQL Server 5.0.24 SQLyog Enterprise 5.17 The problem became so bad and pervasive that I decided the best thing do (about two week ago) was to wipe this machine completely and rebuild it from the ground up. The main partition was deleted, recreated, slow-formatted, and Windows XP re-installed clean (with ALL updates installed as well). The latest versions of PHP, MySQL, and my client admin program, SQLyog we re-installed. I haven't put much of anything else on this machine, aside from Homesite (to write PHP), and MySQL Administrator to manage users. Process count is low and managed well. There is nothing stupid on this laptop. But the problem persists! Basically, it's an intermittent but frequent "Access Violation" within PHP. It happens at complete unpredictable times. Meaning, I cannot reproduce the problem using a recipe. There are no known sequence of events that cause the problem to occur. After boot, I start developing. I'm running Homesite, writing code, saving it. I'm using IE to run locally the PHP/Fusebox app I have written, using localhost. I have a virtual directory set up in IIS for the app. I test my code, running through several circuits and functions. I use SQLyog Enterprise to make and alter tables, adjust data, perform other analyses through manual queries, etc. etc. Lots of querying going on to the local MySQL server from the app. This is an astronomical data management system, so it is query-heavy. I'm using PEAR::DB and mysqli to do all the PHP/MySQL stuff. My code is two years old and quite robust. It is fully debugged, and I think I write pretty good code that does the right thing. But after a while (again, the time span is unpredictable), things suddenly die. On one request, I won't get back what I'm expecting. Usually a partial page. On the next invocation of PHP, I get an error about an "Access violation" PHP has encountered. At that point, I am dead in the water. PHP simply won't work any more. I have to reboot the system to get it back up and running. This will happen during very single development session. Eventually, after working with Homesite, SQLyog and IE to run and test the app, it WILL die. And it's PHP giving me the error. It seems as if there is nothing I can do to modify my development practices to eliminate or even lessen the frequency of this error. You have to understand that this machine was WIPED CLEAN a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't installed anything on it except the OS and essential development tools. This machine is devoid of any malware, and is extremely process poor. It's a super clean system. Does someone, anyone, has any insight into this? Please help me! Christopher Watson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
