File Buffer Corruption
Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 7:28 am
I've encountered a rather severe error on several occasions that probably needs some investigation. I've been reluctant to report it because I haven't been able to reproduce it reliably. It's happening enough though, that I'll do my best to describe it and hope for the best.
The boring workstation details:
Dell Precision PWS670
Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz
1GB Ram
Windows XP Professions (Version 2002, Service Pack 2)
Initially I had Zeus v3.95p, but recently upgraded to v3.95t. I've experienced the error in both versions.
Usage details, for what it's worh:
I run Zeus in Brief emulation mode, no toolbar, no scrollbars, full sized windows. I generally have 10-15 files open at once and bounce around them alot with ALT-B and ALT-N (ie., the Documents List and NextDocument Buffer commands).
Now the interesting stuff:
The problem occurs when I have a source file open in Zeus and Visual Studio 2003 simultaneously. Occasionally when I bounce over to VS.NET, make a change (Intellisense is a handy beastie), save it, then bounce back to Zeus, the active edit buffer gets wiped, and the Zeus reports an error. This occurs after I respond "yes" when the editor has recognized that the on disk file has changed and asked to reload it. As part of the error Zeus suggests that I save all my work and restart the program. Of course, I can't or it would wipe my file on disc (although I did it once out of habit), so I dismiss the dialog and exit Zeus without saving.
Zeus restarts just fine.
As I stated upfront, the error is not reliably repeatable. As I have 1GB RAM in my workstation, I don't think it's a low memory problem (though I am open to that possibility). I suppose it could be some sort of caching problem, but the files that I am editing are not terribly large. They are ASPX code-behind files that top out at something around a couple of thousand lines. In fact, the last time it happened, the victimized file was a mear 861 lines long. All my buffers in that session totalled to somewhere about 8000 lines (in 12 files)
I'm sorry that I cannot be more specific., but maybe I've provided enough information to generate a lead.
The boring workstation details:
Dell Precision PWS670
Intel Xeon 2.80 GHz
1GB Ram
Windows XP Professions (Version 2002, Service Pack 2)
Initially I had Zeus v3.95p, but recently upgraded to v3.95t. I've experienced the error in both versions.
Usage details, for what it's worh:
I run Zeus in Brief emulation mode, no toolbar, no scrollbars, full sized windows. I generally have 10-15 files open at once and bounce around them alot with ALT-B and ALT-N (ie., the Documents List and NextDocument Buffer commands).
Now the interesting stuff:
The problem occurs when I have a source file open in Zeus and Visual Studio 2003 simultaneously. Occasionally when I bounce over to VS.NET, make a change (Intellisense is a handy beastie), save it, then bounce back to Zeus, the active edit buffer gets wiped, and the Zeus reports an error. This occurs after I respond "yes" when the editor has recognized that the on disk file has changed and asked to reload it. As part of the error Zeus suggests that I save all my work and restart the program. Of course, I can't or it would wipe my file on disc (although I did it once out of habit), so I dismiss the dialog and exit Zeus without saving.
Zeus restarts just fine.
As I stated upfront, the error is not reliably repeatable. As I have 1GB RAM in my workstation, I don't think it's a low memory problem (though I am open to that possibility). I suppose it could be some sort of caching problem, but the files that I am editing are not terribly large. They are ASPX code-behind files that top out at something around a couple of thousand lines. In fact, the last time it happened, the victimized file was a mear 861 lines long. All my buffers in that session totalled to somewhere about 8000 lines (in 12 files)
I'm sorry that I cannot be more specific., but maybe I've provided enough information to generate a lead.
