RE: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-28 Thread John Jenkins
om: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert PorterSent: 28 January 2004 14:41To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: Periodic COMO file problem MFILES is at 52.  Don't know if that was the default setting or was changed by a consultant we work with... >>> [EMAIL PRO

RE: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-28 Thread Robert Porter
alf Of Robert PorterSent: 27 January 2004 23:10To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Periodic COMO file problem It's a Type 1 file. And editing any record even a new one in the file (really a directory) would result in the problem.  I would think, if it was a bad spot on the disk, predictive sup

RE: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-28 Thread Dennis Bartlett
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John JenkinsSent: 28 January 2004 01:39To: 'U2 Users Discussion List'Subject: RE: Periodic COMO file problem Hmmm   what's your MFILES ?   Regards   JayJay   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

RE: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-27 Thread John Jenkins
Hmmm   what's your MFILES ?   Regards   JayJay   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert PorterSent: 27 January 2004 23:10To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: Periodic COMO file problem It's a Type 1 file. And editing any record even a new one i

RE: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-27 Thread John Jenkins
Robert   Other than hardware related issues (check the disk...) (I see Jerry spotted this one :-)   The &COMO& file is really an O/S level directory - when you run ED you are running a BASIC program which does a READ on a record (file) in the file (directory).   If the file is massive - as

Re: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-27 Thread Robert Porter
It's a Type 1 file. And editing any record even a new one in the file (really a directory) would result in the problem.  I would think, if it was a bad spot on the disk, predictive support should have shown it by now. Even if it was bad, everything is mirrored with MirrorDisk/UX, LVM w/Onlin

Re: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-27 Thread Jerry Banker
I had this happen a couple of times when I worked on an HP system. Turned out to be a bad spot on the disk drive. Then again how big is the como file? If the file is large it could take a while to bring it into memory, if it doesn't get a memory full error first. - Original Message ---

Re: Periodic COMO file problem

2004-01-27 Thread Karl L Pearson
Here's my "shot in the dark": I would check the OS tunable dealing with inode and related settings such as nfile. It's been over a year since I attempted to tune any HPUX kernels. Since the &COMO& file is a type 1/19 it's a Unix directory so has limitations dealing with the native OS. Now, someo