SMP issue, OSR 507, Office Portfolio

From: Roger Cornelius (racpop_at_tenzing.org)
Date: 08/13/03 

Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 00:17:25 GMT

We have been successfully running SCO Office Portfolio for the last
several years as we have upgraded UNIX/OpenServer from 3.2v4.2 to the
current OSR 5.0.7. Starting with about 5.0.2 (I think) OP would no
longer run if we had the SMP software installed. OP would fail with the
message:

MV wiockeys() failed! Can't register hotkeys

This is actually the message I get with 5.0.7 but it is the same or
similar as previous OS versions. Since sar reports didn't show any
performance bottleneck, I just uninstalled SMP and we ran without it and
OP works fine in that case. We're now in the process of upgrading an
aging server to a new one, which, though we didn't order it, was shipped
with a second processor installed. I tried installing SMP and, not
surprisingly, OP won't run. I know that OP hasn't been supported for
years, but I'd love to be able to use it and the second processor at the
same time. Is there any chance of making it work? On a side note, the
new server has XEON processors. If I can't run OP with SMP, will I be
able to run it with one XEON processor with the osr507up Hyper-Threading
update installed?

I've run truss against the OP pmiew.rts binary. It forks a new process
which ultimately dies with a segmentation fault. I can provide the
trace if needed.

Thanks for any help. 

-- 
Roger Cornelius        racpop@tenzing.org

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