Re: application problems

On Feb 11, 1:40 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben wrote:
>
> > the application "runs" as a service on a windows machine with 10 or so
> > threads. These threads seem to be getting killed or just dying off.
> > The problem compounds and gets faster as more of them die.  So it
> > might take 10 hours for the first one to die, then 9 hours more for a
> > 2nd one, then 6 hours more for the 3rd, then 2 hours for the 4th, 30
> > minutes more for the next, etc...
>
> > Once the last thread has died, all the users (40 or 50) lock up and
> > the service ( and / or ) server must be restarted.
>
> Sounds like a MS Windows restriction - Forms cannot run more that approx
> 80 sessions - check Metalink.
> Pre NT4.0, things were better... then Microsoft started optimizing.
> Some of those optimizations can be reversed by setting the "Allow
> service to interact with Desktop", even when it concerns a background
> process. Memory distribution (stack, heap) is changed.
>
> Care to give some information about what runs on the application server?
> --
>
> Regards,
> Frank van Bortel
>
> Top-posting in UseNet newsgroups is one way to shut me up

Don't know if I confused or not but I'm not referring to "Oracle Application Server" ( I swear I'll learn to explicitly state that in sometime soon ).

The Application that is running on a Windows 2K server is DCLink 4.2 from Data Systems International (DSI) Received on Mon Feb 11 2008 - 12:55:03 CST