Occasional Windows app crash in distsrv 9.36 when distributing packages in bulk

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

Sometimes when distributing a large number of packages, the distsrv probe crashes and distribution is interrupted.

We are seeing application errors in the Windows Logs as follows:

Faulting application name: distsrv.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x630c7d72
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.3.9600.20512, time stamp: 0x62cdfc6e
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000f1f50
Faulting process id: 0x5548
Faulting application start time: 0x01d8f57350d0c880
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Nimsoft\probes\service\distsrv\distsrv.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: c5147f04-6520-11ed-812d-000c2902690a
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

Environment

Release : 20.4

Resolution

distsrv 9.37 contains changes to the unzip process resolve this problem.  You can obtain distsrv 9.37 from the Web Archive or by upgrading to UIM 20.4 CU6.