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Good news... we have found the problem and shared it with IBM.

Problem
Your Lotus Domino 8.5.1 server on Microsoft Windows crashes during cvsConvertHTMLToRichText during the conversion of a HTML message to Rich text.

This issue has been seen with customers running Lotus Notes Traveler, Maysoft SpamSentinel (third party), and can potentially occur with other tasks as well.

(see IBM Support Portal)


The culprit turns out to be Transaction Logging.
It seems that the Transaction logging "steps on" some memory. Shutting it off stops the crashes. I know this is a performance issue and that customers like to have this on, but as a workaround turning it off stops the crashing. The downside is restarts after crashing take longer for consistency checks.

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IBM has a hotfix 851 #389  SPR - JSDS7VPGVV   which stops the crashes using a workaround, too.


A final fix should arrive shortly according to Nick Orrick from IBM.

BTW, Nick was great to work with at IBM. He took our calls last night at 9 PM. Once he was able to reproduce the problem on his test servers, he started working on a fix right away.

Comments

Gravatar Image3 - Unfortunately the fix also disables DAOS, since it requires Transactional Logging to be enabled.
Fortunately we don't have the problem :)

Gravatar Image2 - Nice to hear... Good story

Gravatar Image1 - Shutting of Transaction loggin also impacts DB2, so the Hotfix is a better option.

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