Re: blat process freezing intermittently

Adam,


It might  have to do with Windows way of cacheing, and flushing the content
to disk later. If your program can do a hard commit after closing the file,
it would have windows to do the diskwrite directly.
Just my thought.


Lasse


On 30 March 2017 at 15:49, Adam Croft [email protected] [blat] <

[email protected]> wrote:


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> Hi Mike,
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> Thanks for the tip. I do create the tmpfile shortly before calling blat so
> that gives me some direction on where to look.
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> Adam
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> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 4:01 PM, 'Mike Mattos' [email protected] [blat] <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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>> Not specific to blat, but I have encountered errors lately with newly
>> created files not being available to calling processes, and the calling
>> process fails.
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>> Example:  A database query creates a text file, and blat tries to send
>> the file, but fails.  However, it isn’t so much file not found as it is
>> that the file locking fails.  No idea why but it seems to happen at random
>> work stations perhaps 1 in 500 times.
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>> This isn’t new, but seems to be more frequent than a few years ago.
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>> Mike Mattos
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>> “To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be
>> well-mannered”
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>> Voltaire
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>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *Sent:* March 29, 2017 9:21 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [blat] blat process freezing intermittently
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>> I use blat at my job in scripts to FTP files. We've been using blat for
>> years without any issues until recently. We are starting to see our script
>> jobs hang intermittently when they execute a blat process. I've modified
>> the parameters to capture the debug output but I'm not getting any useful
>> information. These scripts run upwards of 100 times a day and we only see
>> this once every few days. This is running on 64-bit Windows 7 Enterprise
>> OS. Here is an example of what I'm seeing in the log file:
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>> blat tmpfile -s "subject" -t "recipient" -log debugfile -debug -timestamp
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>> 2017.03.28 12:30:12 (Tue)------------Start of Session-----------------
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>> Blat v3.1.2 (build : Dec 27 2013 14:33:12)
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>> 32-bit Windows, Full, Unicode
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>> I have verified that the debug output is correct when the blat process
>> runs successfully. I haven't upgraded to the current version because I was
>> hoping to identify the root cause first. What are next steps for
>> troubleshooting?
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