> Could you please expand a little on the last paragraph?
> How does it 'all fall over'?  What symptoms are exhibited?

It hung and nothing seemed to get it going again.

Not having made any notes on how I did yesterday's experiment, I had to try
again and (of course) it all worked more sensibly today and just hung the
process that was trying to do the delete.  A "LIST.READU EVERY" report
showed that this user was waiting for a lock owned by user 0 which is
probably UV's way of saying that it is waiting for any user who owns a lock
in the full lock table row to go away.

When the program that holds all the locks terminates, the hung user
completes correctly but I do get several pages of "READU threshold reached"
messages.  These are fine though they are not very helpful when the
application finishes.

All in all, it looks like UV survives the situation that I was interested in
experimenting with.  So, back to square one (if we can remember the original
question that started all this!) - what is holding the T30File semphore for
lengthy periods?  I still maintain that it may be the process of moving
locks in the lock tables.  All that my experiments have shown is that the
system survives this operation when the lock cannot be moved.

We may also be looking for the wrong thing here.  A semaphore collision
count of 6 really is nothing to get excited over, especially if the system
had been up for a while.  Looking back to Karl's original posting, I think
we need to know a bit more about how the "performance hits" exhibit
themsleves.


Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone, Northampton NN4 6DB
+44-(0)1604-709200
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