You know, /%windir/faultlog.txt that documents every fault that occurs. Not normal application errors - rather those that cause crashes. Yeah. Mine's about 779 KB worth of logs from October 2003, I can't believe how large it would be from the first time I installed it on this machine.

At least we receive errors, but thats more of something like dependency errors. "Error: rpm-108910291212912 is needed by rpm-devel-108910291212912"

And not:

Stack dump:
bff62317 00000000 00000001 006af898 2a4f8894 0a1f4013 000001d4 00000112 000080f0 00001234 000211ce 006af9d8 bff6186d 000021e7 006a0000 006af8d6
**********************************************************************
Date 10/22/2003 Time 16:21
EXPLORER caused an exception 03H in module <unknown> at d5a6:00000001.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0187 EIP=00000001 EFLGS=00000202
EBX=00000001 SS=018f ESP=04f2f824 EBP=04f2fd70
ECX=1003e162 DS=018f ESI=00008dc6 FS=5a07
EDX=00000000 ES=018f EDI=00000001 GS=5b37
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 ff ff 2b 04 70 00 c3 e2 00 f0 2b 04 70 00 2b
Stack dump:
1003e162 000006f4 00000046 00000000 04f2fde2 04f2fd58 00008dc6 04f2fd70 04f2fda2 bff44a7d 1001a86a bff449da 04f2fbe4 00464564 00000100 00000001

My system event log in Win2k (it is a *.evt file) is only 512k. Its first listing is dated 4-5-01, so three and a half years isn't bad. I can still fit this on a floppy disk. I checked the log on the Slackware 4.0.0 box and it is only489 BYTES and it has been running since Dec of 1999.

hmm... ... I guess maybe free software is better.

The reason yours is only 512 is because the .evt file is where it keeps the event log details. Default setting is 512 but you can change that.



Peace,
Whitehat

faultlog.txt - ~82kb
Only goes back less than a year though. Looking through it, I see faults happening usually at least once every day. Most are caused by the winmodem driver. A bunch are caused by 'ACRORD32' (see the hate pdf thread). I even saw the time when wordpad wouldn't look at the doc file about
WinXP sp2 and crashed (see the slashdot thread, it always crashes with everone trying to trying to read that doc with wordpad).

Mine is only 25Kb and almost half of my crashes were from open-source software like GAIM (which I never got working), OpenOffice, and Mozilla. So don't blame M$ on everything.

HUH? I dont have a faultlog.txt in XP, Maybe cuz i disabled indexing or something else.

In XP there are 3 files in windows folder related to this. I guess they didn't wanted to put all the errors that windows get in to one file. They decided to organize it. These are the 3 files

AppEvent.evt
SecEvent.evt
SysEvent.evt

you can open these with notepad. But however if you try to open with wordpad, it will say these files are in use and another program can't access.

These are a few from mine....

"Application Hang IEXPLORE.EXE 6.0.2800.1106 in hungapp 0.0.0.0 at offset 00000000"

"Application Failure iexplore.exe 6.0.2800.1106 in msjava.dll"

See? Only 25 kb.

Which makes 12 kb from them. Not bad, really. You do know, they are in development as well, at least they're honest and not "omg we are the best software ever".

And I think they're stuff like fixme:Kdewhatnot widget not specified, or something.

Only 25? I don't think the size of the file is a very good measure. Try looking at how many you get daily.

when i had windows xp....i dont know how long the fault log was but it the size was 1.5mb.
I only had xp for like 4 months...man!
Since using slackware i havent once had an error crash my comp
SLACK rules!
lol

I started using linux about two weaks ago and I had no program hangs so far. You can see the difference from my screenshots. But make sure you copy and paste the screenshots manuely or you'll get an error. Windows screenshot is a must see. This happed one day after I just tuned the computer on. Didn't even have time to touch anything.

An error will never crash Linux, just apps hang, but if it does, its more of the programmer's fault.

3.4 MB in just over a month.


my harddrive has been failing. just got a replacement from WD. hopefully the error log will stay releatively short.

What's this "crashing" everyone seems to be talking about.. ? Never dealt with one of those with my computers.. is it something new?

In my windows system event log at work (a Win2k machine) I am averaging 10 entries per day. This is for the last week. I think many of them are from the netware drivers not playing nice with the TCP/IP drivers, both of which came with Win2k.

jc2it