| Title: | CDE on Digital UNIX onment - CDE |
| Notice: | CDE on Digital UNIX - for CDE on VMS, please see Note 1.3 |
| Moderator: | UNXA::SYSTEM |
| Created: | Tue Nov 23 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 660 |
| Total number of notes: | 2674 |
Gidday,
I have a problem where a customer is running DUNIX V4.0A and CDE
on a bunch of workstations. I am not sure of exactly what business
reason they have for doing what they are doing, but this what they do.
Their users navigate with the file manager, at any given time
they may have half a dozen file manager windows open. They may kill off
some of the earlier file manager windows and later on create more file
managers (As I don't have a DUNIX system, I can only imagine what is
happening). Eventually the whole system hangs.
The customer claims that this only happens to these users whom
are running the file manager in this maner, and seems to occur when
they are actually scrolling in the CDE file manager.
The customer claims that this happens about once a week per
workstation, however he has not been able to directly reproduce the
issue.
I plan to send them the CDE patches for V4.0A, just to see if it
changes the situation.
I thought of running a script from cron to gather the system
stats every 10 minutes, so that I may be able to determine if there is
a memory leak. It may be a malloc problem rather than CDE.
Has anyone seen this behaviour before with the CDE FILE MANAGER?
Has anyone got any suggestions/recommendations/advice etc.
Cheers,
Dave Reinhold
CSC, Sydney.
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| 639.1 | UNXA::BEUTE | No good deed ever goes unpunished... | Tue Apr 29 1997 11:12 | 7 | |
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| 639.2 | thanks.... | GIDDAY::REINHOLD | Fri May 02 1997 02:58 | 18 | |
Gidday,
You may indeed be correct in assuming that it may be memory,
in discussing this with the customer, on the 4GB UFS filesystem it seems to
trip over while doing a directory of some PARADOX database files, these
files 'appear' to be 9Tb in size. So where inverstigating if this is a
FS floor or a PARADOX issue. In reality these files are really about
100mb in size. So I'm working on this issue.
It may be that the CDE filemanager is catastraphically failing
when it gets to these (I don't blame it, I'm having a problem with a
file of 9Tb in a 4Gb UFS filesystem too).
I'll post a note when I get further.
Cheers,
Dave
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