Re: Maintenance hangs server
David Smerdel
5-23-18
Paul, you are a lifesaver!

It never occurred to me to go through areas, and it solves my immediate problem on a test server. Deploying at the customer over the weekend, so hopefully that goes well.


Jarek, here are the answers to your questions/comments:
1. Code that crashes a test system in client/server mode (this is an abridged version with error checking and most of the string processing removed for clarity):

global
updating

procedure addPriceMn()
begin
record PLVc PLr;
string 255 tstr;


    OpenFile("importdata.txt");
/* while (TestEOF==false) begin
        RecordNew(PLr);
        tstr = ImportField;
        PLr.ArtCode = tstr;
        tstr = ImportField;
        PLr.PLCode = tstr;
        tstr = ImportField;
        PLr.ExVatPrice = StringToVal(tstr,M4Val);
        RecordStore(PLr,true);
if (NextImportLine(true)) then begin end;
    end;
*/    CloseFile;
return;
end;

2. OK Invoices (non stop) works as expected if I run it manually. Invoices get OKed, server doesn't hang. Haven't tried to set it up to run automatically, since the problem apparently lies in the "CloseFile" area.

3. I am sure there are other ways, Paul kindly pointed out one of them.
However, I still think fixing this bug is better than many people rewriting code with workarounds?


Additional question: are there any limits to the size of areas? I have another customer due to update to 8.4 who uses similar functionality to receive item data from a customer, and those files are several MB in size...
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