Filepro and Semaphore Problem.

[Kroboth, Joe]

Hello,

Having a problem.   We use CA's Arcserve for Windows 11.5.   On each server
we run the Arcserve client agent.   I have a problem with the linux server
that we use for filePro.   The backups run fine for about 3 or 4 days.
After that time we start receiving semaphore resource error on our backup
client agent.   CA is telling me to increase the max semaphores on the
machine.   Right now the max is 128.  When the problem is occurring I list
the semaphore using 'ipcs -ls'.  There are 128 listed.  about 100 of them
are listed as owned by filepro.   Same results with everyone logged off the
system.    If I manually delete some of the filepro owned semaphore using
'ipcm -s <id>'  the backup runs fine.  

I know next to nothing about semaphore.  Should I just increase the max
value or is there a problem with all these filepro owned semaphores?

  
Dell PE2850 
Dual 3.2 Xeon
3GB RAM  
CENTOS 4.3
filePro 5.6.03

Thanks,

Joe Kroboth
Chernay Printing, Inc