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- From: bochner@das.harvard.edu (Harry Bochner)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Endless loops on abstract quitting?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.182540.7181@das.harvard.edu>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 18:25:40 GMT
- Article-I.D.: das.1992Sep10.182540.7181
- References: <5295@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
- Sender: usenet@das.harvard.edu (Network News)
- Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University
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- In article <5295@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, gaukur@rhi.hi.is (Kristjan Gaukur
- Kristjansson) writes:
- |> My system is I-OnLine 4.1 with I-4GL RDS on an IBM R-6000 320 AIX 3.1 with
- |> users coming in through ethernet. Now sometimes when they quit abstractly
- |> (like turning off the terminal/computer without quiting the system or breaking
- |> out with ctrl-c or somesuch) the 'fglgo' process goes into an endless loop
- |> eating up all the cpu it can get.
-
- I used to have this problem a lot. I don't know if my experience under SunOS
- applies to what you're seeing under AIX, but maybe it will help.
-
- In my environment, when a user gets disconnected, the processes get sent a
- SIGHUP. Now, the Informix libraries have a signal handler for SIGHUP that shuts
- things down neatly, just the way you would want. The problem is that (at least
- under 2.10.03, which is what I was running when I had this problem) this signal
- handler doesn't seem to be active all the time. My impression was that the
- handler was active when the form-handling library routines were waiting for
- input, but not otherwise (i.e. while calculations or SQL calls are taking place).
-
- In my particular case, I had a program that, for obscure reasons, called a C
- function to read from the terminal, bypassing the Informix libraries. If the user
- got disconnected while this program was waiting for input, it would loop
- endlessly, eating up CPU time in the way Kristjan describes. I rewrote the
- program so that all the IO went through the Informix libraries, and the
- problem disappeared.
-
- Hope this helps,
-
- --
- Harry Bochner
- bochner@das.harvard.edu
-