Re: What causes -408 error msg?

Posted in 1994

Dick Seebach — Fri, 29 Apr 1994 12:32:32 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <CozF08.Ewu@world.std.com> vitel@world.std.com (Vitel Software) writes: >Can anyone shed some light as to what might cause -408 >error messages? We have an application that opens up >alot of processes, including alot of scroll cursors. >Sometimes there aren't any problems, but mostly, they pop up >without any clear pattern. > As I recall from my days of using INFORMIX Turbo, this error code occurs when the back end process (sqlturbo) associated with a user process aborts. You may be able to find a core file. We were never able to figure out exactly what caused the abort, but were able to get around the problem by changing our ESQL-C statements.