>>Hello
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>>Call us crazy fools but our engineers have just installed Metaframe XP on 3 servers with load balancing and Ive got a couple of problems with my Large foxpro applications (They never think of us programmers).....No please dont stop reading !
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>>I have been experiencing "Attempting to Lock" messages and "Error Reading Files" all over the place.
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>>The software is written in VFP 5 and has been running on Novell, NT, Winframe servers fine for a couple of years its just this new version of Metaframe that seems to be causing problems.
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>>Has anyone got any ideas,
>>obviously increasing file locks isnt an issue as its not novell, I have experienced "error reading files" when loosing network connections. But this (I think) isnt the case here.
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>>Give me any ideas you have, even blaming it on the weather is good (Ive tried that!)
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>>Thanks
>>Chris
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>Chris,
>I would first try to copy a complete dir with lots of subdirs+files (different size of files, little and larger than 8-10mb) to server and copy a different similar dir from server to my local in explorer.
>Cetin

ie: a complete office CD copy would be good.
If that succeeds next I would change reprocess to 1 and insert very small (say 0.1 secs) delays between lock retries whereever I use rlock().
Cetin