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dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

WAFLHERDER — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:53:01 GMT

Hi All,

I would like to clean up old events on an OCUMC / DFM version 5.1 server. I thought to use the dfmpurge utility, but at runtime it generates a Windows system error "BEX64".

According to some random technet link, BEX64 indicates a buffer overflow (/GS) or DEP exception on 64-bit versions of Windows.

The platform here is Windows 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit. The executable being run was downloaded as / extracted from a file called: dfmpurge_dfm-5.1x_windows_64.zip

The executable itself, dfmpurge.exe, has a size of some 31.5MB. Can that be correct?

Has anyone else experienced this problem, or has anyone any suggestions?

Thanks in advance!

Robb.

Problem signature:

Problem Event Name: BEX64

Application Name: dfmpurge.exe

Application Version: 5.1.0.15008

Application Timestamp: 50948889

Fault Module Name: MSVCR80.dll

Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.6195

Fault Module Timestamp: 4dcdd833

Exception Offset: 000000000003441c

Exception Code: c000000d

Exception Data&colon; 0000000000000000

OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.274.10

Locale ID: 1031

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

adaikkap — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:25:46 GMT

Hi Rob,

All of the functionality and much more of dfmpurge tool is already part of OCUM 5.2 which happens every-time during upgrade and restore of a db in 5.2 and later.

Regards

adai

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

WAFLHERDER — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:19:18 GMT

If only I was running 5.2 rather than 5.1!

Yours,

Robb.

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

CASTROJSEC — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 12:57:29 GMT

I am using 5.2.0.16214 (5.2RC1) but the dfm purge events -S Information does not seem to be working. I've noticed that some of the other commands are not working as well. Am I missing something?

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

adaikkap — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:49:07 GMT

Hi James,

The clis mandatory parameter is the purge-interval

I was able to run the cli in 5.2 with out any issue.

The -s does the following "Shows the details of the events, without cleaning up them from DB"

C:\>dfm purge event -S Information -s 5d

Hisotry Event Counts

Event Type Count

cpu.load 32

resource-group.modified 32

volume.growthrate 23

host.snmp_status 9

df.snapshot.kbytes 8

data-export 5

df.kbytes 4

host.nfs_service_status 4

traplistener-start 3

df.inodes 2

respool.space 2

status.global 2

dfm.load 1

qtree.kbytes 1

dfm.free.space 1

disk.reconstruct 1

dfm.license.limit 1

volume.overcommit 1

database_backup.status 1

dfm.license.expiration 1

resource-group.created 1

Currrent Event Counts

Event Type Count

cpu.load 32

volume.growthrate 23

host.snmp_status 9

df.snapshot.kbytes 8

data-export 5

df.kbytes 4

host.nfs_service_status 4

df.inodes 2

respool.space 2

status.global 2

dfm.load 1

qtree.kbytes 1

dfm.free.space 1

disk.reconstruct 1

dfm.license.limit 1

volume.overcommit 1

traplistener-start 1

database_backup.status 1

dfm.license.expiration 1

resource-group.created 1

resource-group.modified 1

The cli without -s removed the above shown entires from the db.

C:\>dfm purge event -S Information 5d

Purged 135 events successfully in 0 seconds

One can also run with out the -S or -s just with interval.

C:\>dfm purge event 2d

Purged 4 events successfully in 0 seconds

Regards

adai

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

CASTROJSEC — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 14:55:28 GMT

Thank you. This will not delete any performance data correct?

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

adaikkap — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 02:19:15 GMT

Hi Castro,

This will only delete events from DFM database including performance events. But will not delete any of the performance data stored in the flat files.

Regards

adai

Re: dfmpurge on Windows generates runtime error BEX64

pburcin — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:17:20 GMT

Is there an answer to Rob's original question?? We are also attempting to run/use dfmpurge. We are also using DFM v5.1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Why does dfmpurge throw an error referencing MSVCR80.dll?