RE: RPG Socket fails after a number of communications

Darren,
Let me guess, you're on V4R4 or V4R5?
There is a PTF for this on V5R1 and later. Don't know it because my V5
system hasn't shipped yet!!! 
But Mel Rothman posted it (with respect to the HTTP server) a few weeks ago.
Our "classic" HTTP server on V4R5 keeps logging this error until the web
server jobs just evaporate with no other error. Make attempting to keep a
web site up and running a bit problematic!

-Bob Cozzi
www.RPGxTools.com
RPG xTools - Enjoy programming again.

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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:05 PM
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Subject: RPG Socket fails after a number of communications


I've setup a socket communication program in RPGLE (thanks for the tutorial
Scott Klement) which communicates with a third-party software packages.  I
send data to the PC server job and receive messages back, usually somewhere
around 8 times per part number that I'm processing.  This works fine for
one part number.  However, as I close and reconnect a socket to this server
job (somewhere around 70 times, once for each part #) I start getting a -1
back on my SOCKET request.  The error is CPE3452 - "Too many open files for
this process."  After I cancel the program, even my PING's sometimes fail
to servers that I can ping under other jobs.  I'm using the close(SktID)
API with no -1 return conditions.  Does anyone know if close(SktID) doesn't
actually work for sockets?



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Darren Strong
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