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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: BYPASS and META don't seem to mix
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Date: 5 Nov 90 00:21:44 GMT
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We've run into some problems using meta in "bypass" mode.  Meta
creates large numbers of groups, broadcasts rather a lot, and uses
gbcast much more than most applications (especially in the table
manager).  It seems that this provokes a bypass bug we hadn't seen
before.

Since you can run both bypass and non-bypass programs on the same
isis system (although not in the same process group) I suggest that
users who need to work with meta and who run into problems recompile
the afflicted parts of the system using a clib build with bypass 
disabled.  We are fixing this in ISIS V3.0...

Ken Birman