Technical data

3.5 Symbiont Aborts with Insufficient Dynamic Memory Error
There is a DECthreads problem on OpenVMS VAX V7.0 and V7.1 systems that
results in the DCPS symbiont aborting with an INSFMEM error. The DCPS
symbiont consumes an increasing amount of memory over time, eventually
aborting when it attempts to obtain more than the available dynamic memory.
The probability of the symbiont aborting increases with each new print job that it
processes.
The following patch kits fix this problem:
• VAXCMAR01_071, for OpenVMS VAX V7.1 systems
• VAXCMAR01_070, for OpenVMS VAX V7.0 systems
3.6 Symbionts Aborts with Access Violation or Bad Parameter
Error
The DCPS symbiont can abort with an ACCVIO or BADPARAM error, possibly
also indicating the CMA (DECthreads) facility, beginning 19 May 1997. Other
software on your system, including DIGITAL TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS and
anything layered upon DECthreads, may also fail after this date.
The problem is related to a long-standing OpenVMS restriction of fewer
than 10,000 days in a delta-time value. POSIX-related software in
particular, using the UNIX reference date of 1 January 1970, can encounter
this limit on and after 19 May 1997. Refer to the OpenVMS web pages
(
http://www.openvms.compaq.com ) for more information about the ‘‘Delta-Time
Limit’’.
The following patch kits fix this problem:
• ALPLIBR07_070, for OpenVMS Alpha V6.1 to V7.0 systems
• VAXLIBR06_070, for OpenVMS VAX V5.5 to V7.0 systems
Other Restrictions that Affect DCPS 3–3