Re: 4gl Intermittent core dumps

In article <2ncdbb$toi@rs6a.wln.com> benjamin@rs6a.wln.com (Ben Gardner-Young) writes: >We are a site that is running the following: > a) 4gl RDS 4.10.UC1 on Sun SPARC 2. > b) SE 4.10.UC1 engine > c) Users access the Sun from telnet sessions from various platforms. >We are having the following behavior: > Intermittent core dumps out of one large (~550K) 4gl program. These > occurr in various places in the program and are not reproducible. > I am running this program with the undocumented "-d" flag set from > the runner. This was advised by Informix and has not rectified the > problem. .... >DBtest =>dbx /u3/informix/bin/Cfglgo core0311a >DBtest =>dbx /u3/informix/bin/Cfglgo core0314b >DBtest =>dbx /u3/informix/bin/Cfglgo core0317a .... I appears that you are using a custom runner. If so, I would take a long hard look at the custom C-functions that are involved. Verify that they are maintaining the 4GL stack conventions. Although, it smells like internal malloc structures are getting trashed probably by a ptr running wild. Scott