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- From: madison@Drago.TGV.COM (Matt Madison)
- Subject: Re: A question and an enhancement request.
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.154513.18269@news.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 15:45:13 GMT
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- In article <0095DFF6.ECCA0860.29487@uwwvax.uww.edu>, hunterl@uwwvax.uww.edu writes:
- >The only time we have seen a locked message is when it is compressing
- >or purging.
-
- Lyle has hit on what is the likely source of the problem -- trying to access
- queue file while a CONVERT/RECLAIM is being done by the Router process. That's
- about the only time that the file will be inaccessible to others.
-
- What I probably should have done was modified the code that opens the queue
- file so that it tries several times before giving up. Currently it tries
- just once. Brian's case is the first I've heard of that seems to be a
- frequent occurrence... maybe the disk on which the queue file resides
- is excessively fragmented or excessively busy, causing the reclaim passes
- to take a long time?
-
- -Matt
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