Re: CLOSE_WAIT issues

On Jul 27, 2006, at 5:04 AM, John Pollard wrote:

> As you say is disturbing to hear people report CLOSE_WAITs with 5.3  
> also.
> I have your point about an OS install in mind, thanks for the tip.
> At present I am rebooting every night and since doing so, no  
> hiccups yet, though I do not count this as a long term solution.
> wotaskd was definitely restarting.
> Though we were restarting wotaskd previously (SystemRestarter seems  
> to work ok), we were killing/restarting the stuck applications.  
> Perhaps scheduling restarts for every app instance and restarting  
> wotaskd every night is normal practice and what we should have been  
> doing?

I would say it is normal to schedule your apps to restart on a  
regular basis: how often depends on how confident you are in your  
code.  :-)  As for wotaskd, it _should_ run forever without restarting.


>> I suppose it is possible that there is some difference between the 2
>> versions, but I don't think so.  I don't recommend what you're doing
>> (simply because spending even a few hours configuring a client box is
>> usually not worth it if you can buy something that will work out- 
>> of- the-box), but I would expect to see missing classes or something
>> along those lines if that was your problem.
>
> I think we were almost forced to keep away from X Server because it  
> came preinstalled with a version of WO that at the time completely  
> broke our Java Client applications and there was no supported way  
> of having an older WO version. I actually find that the  
> installation work needed on X Client is pretty much the same as on  
> X Server.

Fair enough.


sacha


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