what did you do to work around the issue?
On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 09:44:06 -0700, Randy Engle via 4D_Tech wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I've encountered what I believe is a "DELAY PROCESS" bug as well.
> In some situations, it behaves in a similar fashion to "PAUSE PROCESS"
>
> Difficult to nail down and replicate in a fresh database.
>
> Just wanted to let you know that I've seen it also.
> Had to do a full work around to avoid the problem.
>
> Randy Engle, Director
> XC2 Software LLC – XC2LIVE!
>
> -Original Message-
> From: 4D_Tech <4d_tech-boun...@lists.4d.com> On Behalf Of Jeffrey
> Kain via 4D_Tech
> Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2018 7:52 AM
> To: 4D iNug Technical <4d_tech@lists.4d.com>
> Cc: Jeffrey Kain
> Subject: Thousands of invalid processes - Delay Process issue?
>
> I posted last Saturday that we were hit by the DELAY PROCESS bug in
> v16 three times in one day - once on each of our two mirrors, and
> also on our production server in (at least) the stored procedure that
> generates the journal files.
>
> I resumed the mirror process without any problem and let the
> production server run, but also noticed the usual pattern that 4D had
> stopped updating its user interface also. Things like the CPU graph
> on the monitor tab had stopped updating, and the uptime display was
> wrong.
>
> I checked on the server today from the administration window command
> in 4D Remote, which doesn't stop updating even if the server UI does.
> There are about 100 users connected with about 600 processes running,
> but on the Process tab there are over 5600 "Users Processes" and over
> 1200 "4D Processes" for just 100 users. There are MANY "Reused spare
> processes" and lots of processes from users who are no longer
> connected to the server (and users who wouldn't be working on a
> Sunday anyway).
>
> Anyone ever seen anything like this? This is a Windows Server 2012
> 64-bit running 16.3 HF2. I'm guessing that this all stems from the
> DELAY PROCESS bug - one thought is that some background
> cleanup/garbage collection task has stopped working.
>
> --
> Jeffrey Kain
> jeffrey.k...@gmail.com
>
>
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