keithd@gryphon.COM (Keith Doyle) (11/07/88)
After a previous poster's note on the Projector (from the Director) causing a task held requester, I looked into things a little further. We have had a few reports of this happening, and in every instance the user was using FACC-II. After further testing, we were able to reproduce the failure multiple times without even using the Projector. Running FACC-II and asdg-low-mem.library, this simple procedure will cause the task held requester *periodically*. Unfortunately the problem is sporadic, and can take a couple of tries to reproduce. 1. warm boot 2. loadwb -debug 3. open some windows on floppys (we also opened some hd windows as well, but I don't believe it matters too much) 4. do a "flushlibs" from the WB debug menu After removing the asdg-low-mem.library, we were unable to reproduce the problem. Our testing was done under 1.3, but other reports we've had were 1.2 based. In addition, we were using RAD:, Dillon's Shell V2.07 and the 1.3 shell-seg was resident in our tests, but weren't in the other reports we've had. I would be interested in any other reports people who are running the asdg-low-mem.library might have, I seem to remember someone else posting a note about problems with it as well. Keith Doyle gryphon\!keithd
Ata@radc-multics.arpa (John G. Ata) (11/15/88)
Keith,
It seems to be a known problem that FaccII and the low mem library will
cause task held requestors and gurus. I got this on a pretty vanilla
system with no other special software running concurrently. The only
solution I'm aware of is to run FaccII without the low mem library.
John G. Ata