| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
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My apologies if this came up before in this conference (a
DIR/TITLE=AST flushed up no good prospects).
I'm investigating a problem at a customer site, details of
which I can provide in a reply if necessary, but basically
the most promising theory so far is some previous image has
left an outstanding supervisor mode AST hanging around.
The problem seems to show up after the customer has run
Oracle's EasySQL program (customer mentioned EasySQL verbally,
I don't know if this spelling/mixed case embellishment/etc.
is proper or not, just how I'm representing it here). We
don't know at this point whether they've seen the problem in
a mode where EasySQL wasn't run first.
It's my understanding that Oracle runs in supervisor mode
to a great extent (I really know nothing about Oracle software).
So, my question:
Any of you good folks out there aware of issues where Oracle
software in general (or "EasySQL" in particular) has left
supervisor mode AST's hanging around after image exit? VMS
is V4.7 so the Oracle edition would be that which runs on
VMS V4.7. Thanks in advance; while not trying to "blame"
Oracle, knowing the answer to this is going to help make the
case or else say that the most promising theory is rubbish
and we have to look elsewhere.
Bill Dickey
Western Region Systems Support
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 749.1 | Problem was old Oracle software. | SCCAT::DICKEY | Tue Oct 09 1990 23:39 | 12 | |
Just in case anyone else ever sees the same thing (symptom here was
a user CTRL-Y'ing or CTRL-C'ing to abort something, typically a
"$ TYPE *.LIS" at some point after exiting Oracle's EasySQL...
this would result in a compute-bound "runaway process" unresponsive
to the user, so the user would have to log in somewhere else to
kill the runaway) . . . the answer is:
Yes. Oracle's EasySQL leaves outstanding supervisor mode
AST's hanging around . . . this was in V5 of Oracle software,
fixed in V6 which is compatibile with VMS 4.6 (or 4.7, I
forget which, but one of the "last" of the VMS V4's) and
later, i.e. V5.x VMS.
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