Just started the new ones, working fine in the first few minutes. Like some other posters, I've been having random zombies for a while, 3.4.x IIRC, including with the previous experimental exes.
Looking good right now though, but it often takes many hours before the first zombie appears.

Thanks for working on it - nasty challenge!

Edit: 3 minutes later, first zombie just appeared. Sorry.

Run it in full debug mode storing the log somewhere until the zombies appear to see what it might be that provokes them.

i.e. start it with the extra commands: -D 2>log.txt
and send me the log.txt file.

Note that if, despite all the absurd extra code I put in, you are still having problems, it may not be code at all, so check connections, power cables, adequate power, OS etc.

I know, and I keep trying to isolate such things but no clear result yet other than - one of my machines ran 24/7 for weeks without a single anomaly, no zombies or crashes, on 3.1.something but two of my machines started to have random zombies on all versions from 3.4 on. I'm not saying cgminer is flawed - the later versions might have uncovered some previously unseen Windows bug, for instance, but the problems (for me) seemed to start after 3.1.

Because of this, I'm fairly sure it's not most of the things you list, but it could certainly be OS, which for me is latest Win7 64.

Gotta do some dirtspace things for most of the day, but I'll get a log Real Soon Now and also set a machine back to 3.1 and see if it becomes stable again.

Edit: changed to 3.1 from incorrect 3.3 in several places.
 

Yes, you can do this.  Read the README document.  Search for the section 'QUOTAS'.

https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/README

What i mostly miss in this mining software is central managed clients software where i can manage a client from one comuputer.
for instance, Like I have 10 client computers where all are in network connected to server, so I have on server an administration software to define when cgminer is runned on client computer with pre defined intensity. So in morning hours intensity is low when people work on computers and out of working hours intensity is high when nobody works on them. On administration software I can see a video card, temperatures, etc. for each client and can set for each client differend setting for differend hours. I will pay for that software like 3$ per client licence. I am soure many other wil do too.
I know many companies where computer are newer turned off, so why can't someone use it for mining at that time?
And we all knows that many use that computer to mine. Bitcoin is almost over but there are new currency which will go on. And script mining have some flaws, like dynamic intensity doesn't work well.
And I have permission from company ovner to use those 10 computers to mine after working hours.
So what I need is client software and administration software for client. Maybe is there someone which will do that?

So CGMiner isn't going to support the 290X and similar cards, correct?

Dealing with Windows can make anyone feel suicidal. He's obviously joking though.

can we manually edit the config file and have it still work? V3.3.1

ok,thanks. can't hit restart. both my main and fallback pools are coming up unavailable. so i can either let it try every 15 sec.s or quit. Since i'm running ubuntu 12.4 i can't seem to upgrade to the newer versions. This was a case of "if it ain't broke..." Today it feels like everything i have is broke.