Re: Problem with SyncCM and a patch

[Dan Mick <Dan.Mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A smoking gun: a recent bugfix to libcsa in the yet-to-be-released
Solaris 8 has exactly the same threshold (16 weeks).  I suspect
something slightly wrong with that bugfix.  So I suspect this
issue is Solaris-8-specific, and there's a rumor that it's already
been fixed...but I'll make certain.  You non-Sun people probably
needn't worry about this one.

> SyncCM stopped working for me....would pause in the midst of
> loading appointments from my CM calendar, and loop allocating
> memory.  After a bunch of debug, I'm thinking it points to
> a bug in Solaris's libcsa.so, but I'm not certain yet.
> But I did find a workaround:
> 
> > diff cm.pm.orig cm.pm
> 
> 936c936,939
> <     $chunk = 16 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60;   # 16 weeks.
> ---
> >     # I've no idea why, but paring this down to 8 weeks makes my
> >     # calendar work better.  i.e. at all.
> > 
> >     $chunk = 8 * 7 * 24 * 60 * 60;    # 8 weeks.

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