Jean Daigle (jaydee++at++ATSaerospace.com)
Fri, 16 May 1997 18:58:39 -0400
On May 16, 9:22am, Jeffrey Wallace wrote:
...
} I am supporting a very simple legacy app running on an Onyx RE2, IRIX 5.3,
} Performer 1.2.
}
} This application has been in use for almost two years, and recently began
} crashing giving the error:
}
} Performer Fatal: InitUtilDPool: could not make Util Data Pool
}
} If I try restarting the application several time, it ultimately will start
} and run just fine.
}
} What has happened? There has been some extracurricular use of the machine,
} and I can't tell what if anything has been done to it.
...
}-- End of excerpt from Jeffrey Wallace
Check out your /var/tmp directory. There may be an inordinate
number of pf[uU]til* files lurking there. These are the shared
memory arenas created by initialization of the utility library
in pf apps (pfuInitUtil()). They often don't get deleted when
the application ends. They certainly persist after a crash.
Delete them!
Even better, wipe them out periodically with a cron job!
The files are keyed to a process number. When the process count
wraps or re-intializes after a reboot, there is a chance of a
collision with a residual file, which is fatal.
An application terminating normally and calling pfuExitUtil() is
supposed to clean up this file.
Regards,
Jean Daigle.
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