What is actually happening behind the curtain? I’ve found that once the external action fails to call a windows command, no other commands work without a reboot.
The error is: File: testbat.taf Position: External Class: Internal Main Error Number: -101 General error during data source operation. If I understand what is happening in the code (version 5.5) I can identify what is wrong and add a layer to watch for it and perhaps clear the issue. The volume of requests to the external action went up significantly in a recent change to the application. I’d like to fix this or make a workaround without having to upgrade the entire system at this time. Thanks Robert, Peter Peter Dobbs President | ENGINESS | P: 416.901.6151<tel:416.901.6151;118> | F: 416.901.6150<tel:416.901.6150> | www.enginess.io<applewebdata://8216EA48-43EA-4400-A4E3-F4C824DFF588/www.enginess.io> From: Robert Shubert <rshub...@tronics.com> on behalf of Robert Shubert <rshub...@tronics.com> Reply-To: "TeraScript-Talk@terascript.com" <TeraScript-Talk@terascript.com> Date: Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 5:23 PM To: "TeraScript-Talk@terascript.com" <TeraScript-Talk@terascript.com> Subject: RE: TeraScript-Talk: external action failing I have had a suspicion that the external action can lock against itself under load. Years ago I was using a multi instance setup and found that the servers locked up in a way that you are describing. I went to a virtualized configuration with one instance per virtual and the problem went away. This was on TS 6. I also had a Witango 5.5 user complain of something similar. In that case, adding servers solved the issue. Other than those experiences and a hunch about the root cause being related to the external action, I don’t have much more to go on. One thing that I’ve done which I think helps is to write out a new batch file for each external call. This creates two situations: 1. Since I swap all the variable data in the file write, I don’t use environmental variables 2. Since I’m writing a uniquely named file, no two external calls access the same file Furthering my hunch, I think the problem is tied into the environmental variables. Since TS8 is completely rewritten in Java, and uses the Java Process system it won’t have any problems. Robert From: Peter Dobbs [mailto:pe...@enginess.io] Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 8:31 AM To: TeraScript-Talk@terascript.com Subject: TeraScript-Talk: external action failing Have you ever experienced a situation where external actions (cmd line windows) threw errors for no reason? We have code that has been stable for many years. Recently we’ve begun to dramatically increase the number of cli interactions and it seems as though windows stops accepting requests from the app server. Peter ________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to lists...@terascript.com<mailto:lists...@terascript.com> with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. ________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to lists...@terascript.com<mailto:lists...@terascript.com> with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body. ---------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to lists...@terascript.com with "unsubscribe terascript-talk" in the body.
