| Re: Multiple IDL versions [message #40559 is a reply to message #40514] |
Wed, 18 August 2004 15:15   |
Melissa A. Jackson
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2003
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Node-locked licenses will allow multiple idl versions to run at same time as
long as same user, display, and host.
There was a problem in IDL 5.4 that is addressed by IDL 5.4.1.
See techtip 3217 on www.rsinc.com.
http://www.rsinc.com/services/techtip.asp?db=INT&ttid=32 17
-Melissa
RSI
"Nigel Wade" <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.08.16.08.55.29.51043@ion.le.ac.uk...
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:49:02 -0700, Joe wrote:
>
>> Nigel Wade wrote:
>>> On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:56:15 -0700, Joe wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all-
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to run multiple versions of IDL at the same time (by
>>>> the same user)?
>>>>
>>>> When I run IDL 6.0 in one xterm and then try to run IDL 5.4 in
>>>> another xterm, it says no license is available.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> -Joe
>>>
>>> If both instances are run on the same system, by the same user and
>>> output to the same display they should share a license. I don't
>>> actually have 5.4 to test that version, but I can run 5.3 and 6.0, and
>>> 5.5 and 6.0 simultaneously and it only uses the "6" floating licenses
>>> of a single instance of IDL.
>>>
>>> At least that is the case with floating licenses, I'm not sure about
>>> node locked licenses.
>>
>>
>> Ahh. That must be why it doesn't work for me. We use node-locked. :(
>>
>> When you do that with floating licenses, does it actually use 2 licenses
>> then?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Joe
>
> No, only 1 (effective) license is used, shared by both sessions.
>
> Floating licenses are accounted in some strange way. We have "400"
> floating licenses. An interactive session from sgi IRIX uses "10"
> licenses, a similar session from Linux uses only "6" licenses. I don't
> know if the accounting scheme has any sensible basis or is an arbitrary
> scheme thought up during someones coffee break.
>
> --
> Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
> University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
> E-mail : nmw@ion.le.ac.uk
> Phone : +44 (0)116 2523548, Fax : +44 (0)116 2523555
>
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