How much do I need to worry about this?

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Richard Kreiss
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> Behalf Of Nancy Palmquist
> Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 3:22 PM
> To: Boaz Bezborodko
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> Subject: Re: How much do I need to worry about this?
> 
> Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
> > John Esak wrote:
> >
> >>  Well, I guess you mean a comment on the if: line of a lookup.  I don't
> >> think anything other than the lookup can go on a lookup line.  But,
still,
> >> shouldn't cause rcabe to crash.  It's sounding like an overall memory
error.
> >> I didn't understand what you were saying about your testing on other
> >> machines.  Did it not crash there so you think it is just on your one
> >> development machine?  Is it at all repeatable?  Have you eliminated
> hardware
> >> problems.  Re-seated the memory, simple things like that?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > The problem happens when I have a syntax error in the table and occurs
> > no matter which machine I use in the office.  I checked the log on Samba
> > and it seems to be opening and closing the files as necessary and isn't
> > complaining about anything.
> > I also tried copying all the files from the file server onto my own
> > machine and set PFDSK to the local disk and I still got the problem.
> > This should have eliminated any memory problems (wouldn't duplicate on
> > other machines) and the server (I'm running the programs off the local
> > disk).
> >
> >
> >> I do know one error that causes very strange behavior with cabe... I
don't
> >> rmember if it does actual crashes. It might... Though... I know it does
all
> >> sorts of weird stuff.  This is the error of not having enough memory
> >> allocated to "label" size. There is an environment variable that can be
set
> >> higher.  PFLBSIZE.  As you get more and more lookup aliases, array
names I
> >> think, and actual labels, maybe some other things, Ken would have to
> >> elaborate, the tables can not be saved properly and lots of strange
runtime
> >> errors occur.  I set it in most of my large systems to 5000.  I think
it is
> >> defaulted to only 1024.  Like I say, it probably doesn't cause cabe to
> >> crash, but then again, that might be one of the symptoms.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > This couldn't be the problem as I can make it do this even if the only
> > line in the table is a lookup with a syntax error.
> >
> > One thing more....I'm seeing the following on the screen right after the
> > error window pops up:
> >
> > Exception error -1073741819 in process failed 0(0x00000000)
> > comspec="(null)"
> > command="\fpro\fp\rcabe
> >          "
> > Press Enter:
> >
> >
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> Are you running a WINDOWS version of filePro?  I had the impressing you
> were running a Unix/Linux version from the talk of Samba.
> 
> I had no end of issues with filePro when the Windows network is not
> working correctly.
> 
> The errors were like SegViolations on Unix and reported like you see
> above.  It always seemed to be caused by the system being unable to
> write fast enough.
> 
> Now mostly I saw this in the runtime side, but maybe your network has
> other problems.
> 
> To fix my RUNTIME issues, I added SLEEP commands after WRITE or CLOSE
> to
> give the network time to write the data and update the server.
> 
> It fixed most of the problems.  It has reduced them to the point where
> they are very  occasional, instead of crashing so much we could not work.
> 
> Check that you have applied all the network patches for the system,
> especially related to LOCKING and I/O, for the server and clients.
> 
> Hope that will help.
> 
> Nancy
> 
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