Re: Dr. Watson strangeness

Dale Reed ( daler@iea-software.com )
Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:12:04 -0700

Peter D. Mayer wrote:
>
> We've been having an odd problem with Dr. Watson. The last 3 days instead
> of popping up a dialog box, Dr. Watson takes 100 % of the CPU time and just
> sits there. I'm not sure if this is caused by RadiusNT or not, but I
> thought I'd check and see if anyone else has ever had this problem. It
> doesn't pop up a dialog box like it does when you shutdown the SQL service
> before shutting down Radius. Any ideas? I've stopped almost every process
> except SQL and Radius, so I'm not sure what else to try.

I would edit your DR Watson registry and set the dump to 0 and
visual notification to 0. The 100% CPU is DW writing the dump
file (which can take a long time).

Path is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\DrWatson

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