Re: Strange server crash problem

On Friday 08 September 2006 00:35, Robert Cummings wrote: > > The damned thing is, the 4KB mark is reached while outputting the > > left-side navigation bar. The way the CMS is structured (I didn't write > > it), that happens before any page-specific content is even loaded. There > > shouldn't be anything different about the code there yet. > > > > I've been unable to figure out why it happens. Any idea what to check? > > I'm stumped. > > > > The server itself is (get this) a Windows/IIS box running PHP 4.0.6 (yes, > > really) and MS SQL server via ODBC. I unfortunately do not have direct > > access to the box, so I can't check server logs myself. > > Binary search using error_log() and __LINE__ output to track down where > the thing dies. Binary search? I must be using a different definition than you are, since I don't know what a binary search would do for me when trying to track down a problem with output. :-) I suppose it is possible that it's dying at some point other than where the output is stopping. I've localized where the output stops; it's always at the end of a given loop iteration in the code that generates the sidebar; at the end of the loop that passes the 4 KB mark, it seems. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@garfieldtech.com ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson