FreeTDS Development Group

["Duncan Berriman" <duncan AT dcl.co.uk>]

Hi,

Thanks for the fast response. I'll give the latest release a try on one of
our servers and see how it goes.

Regards
Duncan 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
> [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> Lowden, James K
> Sent: 16 March 2007 15:26
> To: FreeTDS Development Group
> Subject: Re: [freetds] Connection Hangs
> 
> 
> > From: Duncan Berriman
> > Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 6:15 AM
> > 
> > This morning I noticed that for about an hour every time the process
> > was started and it attempted to connect it hung on the connect. A
> > whole queue of these processes formed on each server all in the
> > hung state which is odd given that there is a connection and login
> > timeout set.
> > 
> > Eventually (after about an hour) all the processes responded with
> > "Unable to open data source".
> 
> Sorry, it's a bug.  I should document it somewhere.  
> 
> The good news is it's fixed as of a few months ago, so we 
> believe.  The
> bad news is it's not released; you have to use a recent snapshot.  
> 
> Timeout handling was quite a jumble.  If you're curious, see my
> announcment
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/freetds/2007q1/021030.html.  
> 
> HTH.  
> 
> --jkl
> 
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