After three weeks without a clue, I was searching on the net, and I found
this single mail thread:
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-msdos/1998-Jan/0091.html
And there is a patch to avoid a the problem I have, but under "lredired"
drives (dosemu).
So just seeing the patch, I see the trouble is caused by the "flock()", so
mi first try is that my trouble seems to be from the same function, but
implemented in the iBCS module.
Then I have two questions,
1. In some way, I feel like there is a "hidden" limit in flock(), so when
it's reached, the module can't flock() anything and the whole system
fails. Does anyone have some info about the iBCS internals?
2. In older version of SuSE (I remember 5.X series and probably early 6.X
series), there was something like "Heavy load Server Kernel" or
something like that. Does someone know if there are similar "class" of
kernel, in the 2.2.X branch? (maybe from SuSE or maybe by others).
TIA.
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Nestor
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:10:20 -0500 (PET)
From: Nestor Ruiz
To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Subject: [SLE] iBCS hidden "overflow"
Hi there,
I have a SuSE 6.3 box, updated with kernel 2.2.18 (the one from linux.org,
cause the one from SuSE hangs up my machine at bootup), and after looking
for the lastest version of iBCS, found an archive named iBCS-2.2.14-2,
apply patch for "sigpending lied" message, and installed the module, so I
got FoxPro running.
My problem begins when the system is running longer than a day, usually
between 40 and 48 hours continuous running, the XDBF system just hangs
all the terminals with a message from foxpro sayin "Record not available",
and no one can write those dbf's.
The system load is tiny, the disks are less than 10% of the capacity, but
I can't get the XDBF system to work again until I reboot the machine.
I want to know if someone have experienced this kind of trouble, and can
help me, because I'm clueless on this issue, and the iBCS mailing list is
out-of-this-world.
Thank you for any info you can give me (or point me, to search by my
self).
PD: I've tried the ABI patches for 2.4.X kernel series, but had no luck,
can't even get foxpro start... :o(
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Nestor
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