IDL Virtual Machine stealing licenses [message #49648] |
Wed, 09 August 2006 09:52 |
Jonathan Joseph
Messages: 69 Registered: September 1998
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We are seeing some strange behavior with one of our IDL installations.
We have a linux box with a single node-locked IDL license (6 units). It
is running IDL 6.0. If one user is running IDL, another user trying to
run IDL will get the message that all the licenses are in use (as
expected). That user could run the IDL virtual machine without any
problem (again as expected).
However, if no one is running IDL and a user runs the IDL virtual
machine, it will hog the IDL license just as if run-time IDL was run.
If another user then tries to run IDL, that user will get the mssage
that all the licenses are in use.
lmstat -a verifies that all 6 license units are in use by the user
running the IDL virtual machine.
In our other set up (a multi-user floating license, with IDL 6.2),
lmstat verifies what I believe should be the appropriate behavior: that
running the IDL virtual machine does not grab any licenses from the
remaining available pool.
I wasn't responsible for setting up the one that's not working, so
before I get into trying to fix it, I'd like to know:
Is this behavior due to a known bug? Ether one that is inherent to 6.0
(or the lmgrd that came with that release) that was fixed in a later
release, or one that is inherent to node-locked licenses? If so, is
there a workaround short of upgrading the IDL version?
If not a known bug, has anyone else seen this type of behavior. If so,
were you able to fix it or find a workaround short of upgrading or
reinstalling IDL?
If no one has seen this problem before, any clue as to where I should
look to fix it?
Thanks.
-Jonathan
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