Process not relinquishing a LAT device...

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Chaim,

To verify if the device is spooled : do show dev ltaxxx/fu. It should show "spooled". But the details (disk+queue) are not shown.

But as Volker said, find out what's wrong.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

And note that your problem is the normal behaviour for a non-spooled printer that ran out of paper or is offline.

Wim

[Chaim Budnick]

Thanks for all te replies!

Of course we are attempting to solve the problems and not the symptom. However, it will be interesting to see if at least the users will be happier. Currently, at the point where the DSM application owns the device, any user attempting to print is unable and receives a "Line Busy" error, until someone either stops the owner process or someone repowers the printer. On the other hand according to one of the replies it appears that setting the device as spooled may not really prevent this.

Thanks,

Chaim

[Volker Halle]

Chaim,

'repowering the printer' - that sounds like a lost XOFF. You can see this with Local> SHOW PORT n STATUS (it should say Output XOFFed: YES).

With a spooled solution, your users won't get the 'line busy' errors, but the print-queue will occasionally enter the STALLED state and you might need to monitor that...

Good luck,

Volker.

[Chaim Budnick]

The DECservers are 90L and I don't think I can get this particular information.

Thanks,

Chaim

[Volker Halle]

Chaim,

the DECserver 90L should have a SHOW PORT command and it should show:

In Flow: ENA/on
Out Flow: ENA/on

for all the ports. ENA or DIS will show whether flow control is enabled/disabled, /on or /off will show the current state.

So Out Flow: ENA/off would indicate that the output to the printer is currently XOFFed.

Volker.

[Chaim Budnick]

Here is what I get from SHOW:

Name PORT_8
Speed 9600
In Flow ENA/on
Out Flow ENA/on
Type PRINTER
Break LOCAL
Rem Mod DIS
Test NO
AutoConf DIS
ODL DIS
Status LOCAL
Service
Node
Port
Fram Err 0


That's all!

Thanks,

Chaim

[Chaim Budnick]

Please disregard my last reply, I was a little dyslectic !

They are both ENA

Thanks,

Chaim

[Volker Halle]

Chaim,

just wait until the program hangs again. Then repeat the SHOW command and see whether /on has changed to /off ...

Volker.

[Alon Jacob]

Hello All.

After the STM multiplexer was replaced on both sides it looks like the problem's solved (Yes, I work with Chaim).

Not surprising - there was no problem from the VMS side.