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Skriven 2007-03-05 17:20:12 av Mike Luther (1:117/3001.0)
Ärende: What is NSRWS.EXE for?
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Can anyone help me on this one?

I get some very rare OS/2 hard lockups which have been a puzzle for years on a
box or two.  Strictly by poking my nose in things, I have discovered that they
happen when, of all things, UNIMAINT will find that a certain 'file' NSRWS.EXE
should be in the TMP directory but is an 'invalid path or file not found' for
this file!

Wow .. I've seen this for a long time on Warp 4.52 boxes latest whatever.  I
thought for a good while now this has been part of the Norman virus utility
work as I'll see these locks at very rare odd times while using the engine to
check tons of Email files in Post Road Mailer. If I take a hard lock there,
when I reboot there will be this strange error to 'fix' in the .INI files when
I reboot the system.

Norman .. and a few other programs use long file seeks with 64K buffering on
SCSI boxes.  Which have always up until now been the suspect issue here.

Suddenly in VERY hard LAN network use with PEER, I've spotted this as pretty
conclusively related to a LAN failure where the box used as a 'server' is a
slower box than the very fast latest Intel 915GAVL operations I've got that may
connect to it.

And .. wouldn't you know it.  I've actually seen two hard locks show up which
absolutely place this strange 'error' in the UNIMAINT repair run for this
NSRWS.EXE mysterious file.

Hmmmmm ..  Locking a box on PEER for very heavy pure file use between boxes is
one thing.  But this combined with it is very curious.  Doe ANYONE here know
what this supposed 'file' is?  I've searched in all my boxes with file
utilities both on all the MCP2 and even FP17 Warp 4 boxes I have for the few
left.  No trace of such a file.  I've used GOOGLE to search for this and found
virtually nothing for this at least in any language I can understand there. 
Very few citations at all and they are, I think, sort of virus related issues
which aren't at all OS/2 issues, or so I think.

This isn't a question so much about very intense file access use on PEER, but
more directed toward this strange 'file' issue.  Maybe a DLL in the whole thing
which somehow is thought to be a file in the \TMP directory?  And that is why I
can't find it?  I've looked at the DLL lists for all this with UNIMAINT
utilities too.  Nothing like that linked there I can find.


Anyone have any thoughts?


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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