Windows 2003 Problems

I upgraded a Windows 2003 Server machine with SP1 and applied all the current
updates. This server is running a home grown scheduling system written in
VB6. The system monitors and runs programs as scheduled. Anyway, after the
updates some of the programs periodically lock up, usually about one a day.
It seems to always be a movement of data between two servers that locks. For
example, we periodically download from an Oracle server to our SQL Server
using DTS. I run approximately 300 downloads a week and it basically locks
up about 6 or 7 times a week now. It never locked up before. When it locks
up you can look at the processes running inside SQL server and the process is
still connected but not getting any CPU time and absolutely no disk activity.
About all I can do is re-boot the machine running the application, re-start
the programs, and watch for the next lock up! This same thing has also
happened to a program that FTP’s data from a Unix server to the application
server.

Any suggestion will be appreciated.

"Lynn Caveny" <Lynn > wrote in message
news:01546140-95D0-4C4C-9BAA-...
>I upgraded a Windows 2003 Server machine with SP1 and applied all the current
> updates. This server is running a home grown scheduling system written in
> VB6. The system monitors and runs programs as scheduled. Anyway, after the
> updates some of the programs periodically lock up, usually about one a day.
> It seems to always be a movement of data between two servers that locks. For
> example, we periodically download from an Oracle server to our SQL Server
> using DTS. I run approximately 300 downloads a week and it basically locks
> up about 6 or 7 times a week now. It never locked up before. When it locks
> up you can look at the processes running inside SQL server and the process is
> still connected but not getting any CPU time and absolutely no disk activity.
> About all I can do is re-boot the machine running the application, re-start
> the programs, and watch for the next lock up!


Is that just because rebooting is easier than stopping and restarting
that task? <eg>

BTW this doesn't seem to have much to do with Windows Update?
You would probably get better assistance from another newsgroup
which specializes in either your application or your OS.


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> This same thing has also
> happened to a program that FTP’s data from a Unix server to the application
> server.
>
> Any suggestion will be appreciated.