Re: Problem with SyncCM and a patch

[Dan Mick <dan.mick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to follow up and confirm 100%: yes, this was a bug in Solaris 8
libcsa,
only available internal to Sun, and it's since been resolved.  (See,
we *do* test internally...;)


> 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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