Re: application problems

On Feb 12, 8:03 am, "frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com" <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 11, 7:55 pm, Ben <benal..._at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > On Feb 11, 1:40 pm, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bor..._at_gmail.com>
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> > > Ben wrote:
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> > > > 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...
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> > > > Once the last thread has died, all the users (40 or 50) lock up and
> > > > the service ( and / or ) server must be restarted.
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> > > 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.
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> > > Care to give some information about what runs on the application server?
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> > > Regards,
> > > Frank van Bortel
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> > > Top-posting in UseNet newsgroups is one way to shut me up
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> > 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 ).
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> > The Application that is running on a Windows 2K server is DCLink 4.2
> > from Data Systems International (DSI)
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> I wasn't referring to the OAS, but to the hardware, running the
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> (as opposed to the iron, running the database).
> If DCLink is a service, it worth a try to set the "Allow interaction
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The application does run several services, but they are all set to run as a specific domain user. From what I can tell the "Allow interaction with the Desktop" is only available with Local System account logon method. Received on Tue Feb 12 2008 - 08:18:29 CST