Bhaskar,
Thanks for this good information.
Kevin
--- "Bhaskar, KS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With GT.M, the first process to open a database file
> sets up the control structures to manage it, and the
> last one out turns out the lights and cleans up.
> Mupip rundown is not required for normal operation.
>
> Mupip rundown was designed so that in the event a PC
> was powered down with processes accessing the
> database, and there is no database damage, then a
> rundown cleans up certain fields in the database
> file header. It is not needed when journaling is
> used.
>
> Another use for mupip rundown is to see whether any
> processes are accessing a database before shutting
> down a computer system. Another way to do this is
> to execute "ps -ef | grep mumps".
>
> Note that it is not a good idea to shut down VistA
> by issuing a mupip stop to all mumps processes. If,
> for example, the processes are Taskman processes.
> there is information in the database about their
> process ids, etc. It is better to shut them down
> cleanly from inside VistA, and they will clean up
> the database before shutting down.
>
> If you find yourself needing to rundown databases
> routinely, let's review what you are doing in order
> to find out what you should do differently. Using a
> medical analogy, if you find a patient using
> bronchdilators or nitroglycerine frequently, you
> would try to find and treat an underlying condition,
> even if what they are doing gives them relief.
>
> -- Bhaskar
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> on behalf of Kevin Toppenberg
> Sent: Tue 3/8/2005 6:52 AM
> To: hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc:
> Subject: RE: [Hardhats-members] set HL COMMUNICATION
> SERVER PARAMETERS fails
> Bhaskar,
>
> Superstition perhaps?
>
> Actually, it seems that when the database has not
> been
> rundown properly, that attempting to access globals
> is
> unsuccesful. Thus if one has code that depends on
> this variable, it will fail. So it seems that I
> have
> had programs that just drop out, or act funny--only
> to
> start working properly when the database was
> rundown.
>
> Kevin
>
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