Re: MIPSpro floating licenses sometimes fail

From: cesar (cesarbud_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: 30 Nov 2004 13:17:18 -0800

Tristram Scott <tristram.scott@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<41AC3F26.A9DE2D34@ntlworld.com>...
> cesar wrote:
> >
> > Tristram Scott <tristram.scott@ntlworld.com> wrote in message news:<41AAEF8B.EA122185@ntlworld.com>...
> > >
> > > Is the machine you are compiling on also the license server?
> >
> > Yes, the server is installed in the machine used for compiling
>
> Do you have any other machines you can try the compile on?

Yes, but can't test this today. Perhaps tomorrow, or Friday.

Before getting more deeply into flexlm troubleshooting, do you believe
there could be some network setting which might cause such idle status
pause while connecting to the license server (which is in the same
physical machine)? The machine is connected to a small local network.
No internet connection.

I notice similar pauses when I login: The desktop appears without
icons, and then a few seconds later they begin to appear. Also, when I
do an ftp connection from another machine in the local network,
there's a pause of several seconds until I get the login prompt.

Do you think these symptoms might have some connection with the flexlm
problem?

[...]
> That looks pretty standard. You could upgrade to a later release of
> lmgrd. The latest build is 9.5, where you are running 8.1a.

Yes, I can try to upgrade, although I've the feeling there's another
cause for the problem.

[...]
> I notice you are checking the licenses in and out quite quickly,
> presumably whilst compiling small files. Can you watch the log file
> with a tail -f, and see that it is checking the license in and out as
> expected.

Sometimes I get the error in the first file I compile, so I believe
it's not a problem of unavailable licenses. Moreover, the error
clearly states "No server for this feature", it doesn't mention
there're no licenses available.

> The standard floating license for cc has DUP_GROUP="U", indicating that
> requests from the same user name share the same license. This means
> that in theory you should never have more than one license checked out
> at a time. Your log file shows you have checked out two licenses in
> succession, but with DUP_GROUP="U" I believe that you will only have the
> one license issued to you.
>
> There is an attribute called lingering licenses [...]

Thanks for this info. I'll read the docs about lingering.

cesar

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