Re: Canned Novell solution with file and record locking

[Nicolai Kuntze <nicolai@hubrich.org>]

Do you have the same 10 min problem with netx.exe? Is it maybe the watchdog timer? I have the problem that my app freeze from time to time. 

Yours,

Nicolai

Am Sa 17.04.2004 16:13, Enrique Baraibar <contabar@mailandnews.com> schrieb:

> On Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:35:32 -0230
> Kevin Noseworthy - Specialty Software <menkhor@nf.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
>  big snip
> > 
> > Performance is approx 40% of connecting a dos box directly to the Novell
> > 
> > server which you can do for local users if they need more performance.  
> > 
> > This setup is used for a live point-of-sale system.
> > 
> 
> You can improve performance if you use linux + mars-nwe instead of native
> NetWare. We were forced to do this for a customer (burglars stole 7
> machines, including 2 servers) and speed and delay problems dissapeared.
> The problem that remains is that VLM under DOSemu loses idle connections
> after about 10 minutes. We have both a Cobol and a Paradox accounting apps
> that work finely; and I suppose that is because they keep talking to the
> server in the background.
> If you need database locks and your app remains idle for more than say 5
> minutes, mars-nwe is NOT the answer. Otherwise it works very well.
> HTH
> 
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