On Wednesday 15 June 2005 09:23, lysander_fb wrote:

> Moin!
>
> I know that CS Win is in a 'somewhat experimental state', but I am
> nevertheless using it to my full satisfaction in our company, and it
> is for most tests that I have been running indeed faster than the SS
> variant.

There is nothing experimental about the engine. But CS on Win32 is marked
experimental precisely because it is not properly manageable in the way
one would expect to be able to manage the server.

> One problem I have is with 'zombie' processes. And I can not find the
> FINAL solution to this. The installation package for CS Win installs
> with "GuardianOption = 1" and this results in processes not being
> ended after detaching a client.
> If you set "GuardianOption = 0", after a restart of the server
> everything FIRST works fine. I can test with 4 or 5 clients, each of
> them opening 4 databases. Whenever a client detaches, the number of
> processes lowers by 4 on the server. As soon as nobody is attached
> anymore, there is only 1 (the standard) process left running on the
> server.
>

Have you tried installing without the guardian? It would be far more
effective not to run the Guardian in the first place, rather than to use
"GuardianOption = 0".


Paul
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Paul Reeves
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