FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Kimsal <michael AT tapinternet.com>]

Hello all.  :)

I'm having a devil of a time tracking this one down - I hope someone has
some knowledge here that can fix this.

Situation:
We've been developing a web app for a couple months.  We're using PHP4
with the latest freetds and MSSQL7 (sp1).  Things were pretty fine up until 
about a
week ago.  *something's* changed, but I don't know what.  We are
now *often* having a page come back 'document contained no data' or the
IE equivalent.  By often I mean perhaps every 50 requests or so.  This NEVER 
used to
happen - we wouldn't have pressed forward with this if it did.

Original development box:
Caldera 2.4 (kernel 2.2.14)
MSSQL7
FreeTDS CVS - August 17 snapshot and one from June were both used
at various times.
PHP - either the snapshots after the 4.0.1pl2 release or the current
4.0.2

Current box
RedHat 6.2 (kernel 2.2.14 also I believe with SMP - 2 processors)
MSSQL7 (again sp1)
FreeTDS CVS - August 17 snapshot and one from June were both used
at various times.
PHP - either the snapshots after the 4.0.1pl2 release or the current
4.0.2

Both boxes also running Apache 1.3.12

Things worked fine on original box, and moved to final box (redhat) about 3
weeks ago.

Sometime last week, though, the RedHat box started flaking out -
queries simply HANG and die.  I've dumped FreeTDS to a log, but it doesn't 
seem
to tell me anything.  There is no rhyme nor reason for this - hitting reload 
will
normally do the querys again and the page is fine.

There is no error in the Apache error log - the access log shows the page as
getting called, but returning 0 bytes (or, more precisely, '-' bytes).

I've compiled freetds with
--enable-msdblib --with-tdsver=4.2
Also tried tdsver=7.0 with no better results.

Any troubleshooting information anyone can pass on?

I can send logfiles to anyone individually if you'd like - just didn't want 
to clog up
the
list with big big mails.

Thanks in advance.  :)


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Michael Kimsal
http://www.tapinternet.com
734-480-9961