[Chameleon] Anyone have file system corruptions on Windows machines running Mapscript?

[Julien-Samuel Lacroix]

Hi,
I'm no Windows expert, but my first intuition is that it will be related 
to bug 1409. Can it be?

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1409

Julien

Delfos, Jacob wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I would like to ask whether other people running php_mapscript 
> applications on Windows have run into any problems with file system 
> corruptions. I'm not talking about something happening frequently, but 
> rather over periods of 3-6 months.
> 
> We run an internal and external server, running Windows XP and Windows 
> Server 2003. We found that the machines tend to get corrupted file 
> systems after a while, quite consistently. The registry would get 
> corrupt, or files that are accessed by php_mapscript 4.4-4.8. (.php 
> files, .map files, etc). Some files had characters appear in them at 
> random (e.g. a '!' character in the middle of the mapfile, or "this->" 
> becoming "thss->").
> 
> I know this sounds vague, but I was just wondering whether we are the 
> only ones experiencing these type of problems. I do not expect this to 
> be a php_mapscript problem, rather a windows issue that is more 
> pronounced when running mapserver sites (mostly Chameleon).
> 
> One of our servers is a 3.2MHzPentium, 1GB RAM, DELL Optiplex 
> (Workstation), no SCSI, no RAID. Traffic is not heavy, but files are big 
> (>1GB ecw's, 300MB shapefiles, etc.). System does not get rebooted much 
> (< 1x/month).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jacob
> 
> p.s. We're investigating Linux options :)
> 
> 
> *JACOB DELFOS
> GIS ANALYST
> *Maunsell Australia Pty Ltd
> 629 Newcastle Street, Leederville, WA 6007
> PO Box 81, Leederville, WA 6902
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> 
> Tel     + 61 8 9281 6185
> Fax    + 61 8 9281 6297
> _jacob.delfos at maunsell.com_
> 
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