Re: QNTC userid/password change?

On Thu, 19 July 2001, "Peter Dow" wrote:

> Hmm. Are you saying that even though I release the profile handles, they are
> not reused?

No, I'm saying that if you run the APIs to generate and release profiles 
handles over and over long enough, eventually new handles simply won't be 
generated. Whatever gets returned simply won't work as a profile handle. I 
don't think an error is generated until the handle is used and I haven't heard 
of anything that fixes it other than an IPL. Might be something similar in 
concept to running out of temporary addresses.

I haven't specifically heard of this happening since maybe V4R2/V4R3, but I am 
aware of it. It happens only after long periods, many weeks at the least, 
assuming common usage as opposed to generating handles every few microseconds. 
Since extremely few applications run that long and few do that many swaps, it 
is(was) rare. I haven't run tests to determine any kind of limits, though I 
guess it'd be easy enough.

Tom Liotta


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