Hello,
Just heard of this Forum and i thought i'd chime in. (Maybe i can finally resolve my issues.) We have the Pervasive C/S with seven sub-500MB Address Books on a single 3GHz P4 server. It runs Windows 2000 Server and has 1GB of RAM. All of my clients have SR3 and most are using XP with a few older 2k machines. No remotes, no FTP stuff.
I have an issue where for some reason the ntdbsmgr.exe process simply dies. Nothing is written to the event log. That process is what controls the SQL portion of the Pervasive database. There are two Pervasive Services, and restarting those doesn't seem to help. The only remedy has been to restart the server entirely. I have also noticed that the process doesn't seem to deflate the way i'd exect it to. It just swells up to about 300MB and stays there.
I also get this occasional popup error, which writes the following to the App Event Log....
Application popup: EmailService.exe - Application Error : The instruction at "0x77f88216" referenced memory t "0x00000010". The memory could not be "written".
We have support contract, and i've been through it with Maximizer's people but we haven't fixed it. The server's only other responsibility is Yosemite Backup, which runs in the early AM hours when nobody's here. It has a 10k SCSI drive and IIS is off.
I've tried backup/restore of the ABs and disabling or uninstalling what i can. I have not tried a complete reinstallation. I am also testing the SQL version, but moving to that would be a gigantic job.
Other than this, Maximizer has been "fairly" reliable in the three months I've worked here. Don't get me wrong, i've grown to loathe Pervasive and Max is incredibly slow, but as long as its running i'm happy.
But, someday i'm going to need to take a day off, and won't be here to babysit the server. Any ideas that anybody has would be great.
-jim guthrie
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