[wpkg-users] wpkg.js crashing?

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Rainer Meier schrieb:

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> I am simply astonished about this ridiculous small amount of space 
> Microsoft seems to assign to the event logs (512kB each) I wonder how 

Ah, you're just being ignorant.
It's by design: it has an advantage that it perfectly fits on a single, 
720k floppy.


> I just checked on Vista and the default settings seem to have changed:
> Maximum log size (KB): 20480
> (x) Overwrite events as needed (oldest events first)
> 
> So even Microsoft seems to have learned something: Logging is important 
> and helps fixing bugs much faster. And event log should not block new 
> entries when it is "full" since the latest entries are usually the most 
> valuable ones. Unfortunately these settings are not default in Windows 
> XP. I will release an updated WPKG script soon which handles such errors 
> properly with a kind of "fallback" mode.

You can configure a Windows system to make a BSOD when the Event Log is 
full. I doubt many (non-paranoid) people use it, though.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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