How are you exiting udt? Are you logging off with EXECUTE 'OFF' or CHAIN 'OFF' in BASIC? Or are you logging off with a proc doing OFF (or LO for that matter)?
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Israel, John R. < johnisr...@daytonsuperior.com> wrote: > We are having occasional, random issues with runaway processes. > > We run lots of jobs through cron. We pipe the output for each cron job to > a xxx.RESULTS file so that we can review them in case there are any issues. > All of our cron jobs do the following: > Set the needed environment variables > Cd to the desired account > Fire up a udt session > Execute the desired programs/processes that are fed to it > Print a standard "FINISHED" message > Exit UniData (which should then kill the Unix script) > > For some mysterious reason, random jobs will occasionally keep going. Not > only does this eat up the CPU, but the xxx.RESULTS file gets HUGE! Gigs in > size! If we look at the contents of the RESULTS file, we see exactly what > we would have expected from the script/UniData. It shows that it cleanly > executed the "off" command to terminate the udt session, but it then > appears to have carriage returns for millions of rows. In fact, the udt > process is still active! Even though we have typed the "off" command. The > RESULTS file will just grow and grow at an alarmingly fast pace until once > of us kills the process. > > It is not consistent in any way that we have determined. It is not the > same script getting stuck - it appears random. A script that gets stuck in > a runaway status will work just fine the next time it runs. > > Has anyone experienced this before and if so, what was the solution? > > We are running: > HP-UX > Model mbhp7640 > version of unix B.11.31 U > ia64 bit machine > Itantium box > > > Module Name Version Licensed > UniData RDBMS............ 7.2 Yes > Connection Pooling....... 7.2 No > Device License........... 7.2 No > NFA...................... 7.2 No > RFS...................... 7.2 No > EDA...................... 7.2 No > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
