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From: bigmac@erg.sri.com (Bryan McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: calendar manager database
Message-ID: <1991May24.221014.7810@erg.sri.com>
Date: 24 May 91 22:10:14 GMT
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Word of warning...I am already trying this on our network,
and am beginning to see some problems with appointment
loss.  I haven't found all the problems and m just
beginning to work on it with Sun, but if you want to
rely on cm, you might hold off for a while.

What we are seeing is that when one person is using cm
from one machine, there doesn't appear to be a problem, but
when you get one person using it from two different machines,
or two people working on the same calendar, appointments
strart to disappear, mostly newly created ones.  I am 
beginning to suspect that I am seeing a problem with
the cm program pushing the daemon into flushing it's
buffers late at night, or after some idle time,
or something similar, but this is nothing
more then speculation at this point.

By the way, I am doing this on ~130 Suns, running 4.1 or
4.1.1, Sun3 to Sun4.


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Bryan McDonald        |   Computer, Hardware, And Operations Support
bigmac@erg.sri.com    |                     CHAOS
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