(GRX) Too many Free chain Builds

[John Esak]

Just want to add a kudo to the idea of protecting your own email. I know
everyone will think it sounds clumsy and there are a million better ways
perhaps... but Chris's way of prepending his initials is a pretty damn
clever idea. I would hate to have to do it on every email, but our company
gets (once in awhile) spam/bad email that comes (ostensibly) from Nexus
System Administrator... or very nearly something like that. Our people are
good, but seeing something like that has them opening up the email and
thinking it is from someone in IS. It is no good... and a simple JE in the
subject line would prevent this for sure. I like the idea.

As for free-chain. We do not have any trouble with it... never usually ever
re-builds the free chain for any file. However, in the once in a blue moon
as Ken says, when it does... we *have* had the following issue. Not just
occasionally, but *every* time... without fail.  We get the message that the
free chain needs to be re-built and pressing % will do it. Never, once, has
pressing % *ever* done it. The system is always in some sort of
lock-contention at this point... and usually, we will find the message on
many terminals. It is as if the re-build can not happen because there are
other people locking records at the same time or something. I don't know the
exact why or wherefore, I just know that what should be easy, the % thing...
has never worked properly for us. At least not up through 5.0.14.  As I
said, though, we have very, very few occurrences of the free-chain needing
to be rebuilt. My guess/estimation of why this is so... is that we do very
little "strange" addition or deletion of records with lookup dash among
other things. There are just some mechnisms which "lend" themselves to
corrupting the free chain... some are absoltuely inscrutable until you have
many people banging on the freechain at once... but they are in there
waiting tohappen. :-) :-(

I feel for FP Tech and Ken in this regard, because I *know* how difficult it
is to solve a problem that is not immediately repeatable. Just make it
happne... and I can fix it.  Otherwise... well, you know, it's back to old
Radio Shack days... static electricity. :-)

John Esak


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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com]On Behalf Of Chris
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> Subject: RE: (GRX) Too many Free chain Builds
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> [...]
> >I don't have an answer to your question.  However, I have a
> question of my
> >own.  What does the (GRX) notation in the subject line mean?
>
> >mark->
>
> It's an abbreviation for the company I work for.  When I send out
> personal e-mails, I use my initials (CAS).
> The reason is that I tell people that I e-mail frequently that
> they should never open an e-mail from me
> unless it is prefixed with either of those two
> initials/abbreviations.  This way if they do get an
> e-mail without it, they know that potentially it is probably a
> virus.  Maybe in my own way, just a
> small way of ensuring that people read what I "actually" sent.
> Kind of my little way of sticking it to
> the "man" :-)
>
> Chris
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