[Xitami] Regular crash

[John Poltorak]

On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 02:22:38PM -0500, Bulk Mail wrote:
> What version of OS/2 Xitami are you using?  

I've using v2.4d6 for over a year.

> I also had crashes about every 2 days (give or take).  I found 
> the following 2 items:

I don't normally have any problems, apart from this instance when one 
particular person runs ftp which allows seems to crash Xitami.

 
> 1) There is a patched version of Xitami on Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu) bos225b4p2.zip which fixes 
> some problems in (what is now) the current OS/2 Xitami release.
> 
> 2) Setting the EMX env var in config.sys to:   SET EMXOPT=-c -h256 -!0x800
> (This fixes some file handle issues in the OS2 EMX runtime)
> 
> With both these in place I've been up and running for 4 days now with no abends in Xitami (A minor record 
> for me )

I don't understand the need for a patched version. The OS/2 version seems 
well supported. If you run a patched version the the developers of the 
original won't have a clue what someone else may have done to it.   
 
I have EMXOPT set to -h1024. What are the other two parameters for?

 
-- 
John