On Nov 14, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Perkins, Bradley D via 4D_Tech <[email protected]> wrote:
> What should I try next? Start with a new backup? Reinstall 4D? Personally, I would take the easy way out and change the script that is supposed to quit/restart 4D to something like: killall -9 4D which will not be deterred by error alerts or processes that are not responding to normal signals. If there are problems because 4D was quit by the OS instead of being asked nicely, follow it up with a full system restart, although that will require running the script with root privileges (probably not a problem, just run the killing part using cron as root, and the restarting part using launchd as the 4D user). Side story: my client was running v15 Server on macOS 10.12, and suffering from mass client disconnects. As the number of users approached 25, 3 or 4 times per day 10-15 users would be disconnected from the server at once, with no consistency among users disconnected. While trouble-shooting, I ran a constant ping from another server to the 4D server, which shows several seconds of dropped packets corresponding to disconnect events. I then ran a ping on the 4D machine to another server, and had no more disconnect events (until someone restarted the computer and didn’t restart the ping command in Terminal). Obviously 4D wasn’t “fixed”; something in 4D server was killing the network stack in some way and all that code was being executed the same way as before. However, the actual problem went away and that’s really all that mattered. Note to self: perhaps an automated weekly restart of 4D Server is the trick to avoiding the occasional v16x DELAY PROCESS hang. When a hammer works, might as well use it. Jim Crate ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
