Freechain Issue

[Walter Vaughan]

Doug Luurs wrote:

>We switched to Linux from SCO about a month ago, and have encountered
>a strange error that
>Reoccurs 2 or 3 times a day with one file.
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What kind of Linux? Puppy Dog Linux or CentOS? Just curious. You might 
be running some
flakey filesystem.

>The file in question is quite large (5k per record / 875meg key). It
>does not delete records
>(only updates and adds them), yet when we add a new record, We get a
>"About to rebuild freechain"
>message (which is preformed), and then the file seems to be fine for 2
>or 3 hours, then the
>message will reoccurs, and has to be rebuild again.   Another thing
>about this file, I don't
>know if it is relevant or not, but it is the most heavily used file
>here. At any one moment,
>there can be 50 - 100 people using it.
>
>The input process has not changed since the move (not anything related
>to lookups anyway),
>so I am puzzled by this happening so often now.
>
>Has anyone else ever had this type of problem, and what was its
>solution (if there is one).
>
>Thanks all in advance
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>
Yes. But very rarely.
Solution? # freechain fileproFileName

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