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VXCERN::TIMBL "Tim Berners-Lee CERN/DD"              19 lines   1-OCT-1987 16:56
                             -< "Path Lost" error >-
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    When running over DECNET under VMS, and RPC client program can exit
    with error "path lost".  This means that decnet was unable to continue
    communication with the partner (server) task, after repeated retries.
    
    This can be due to a hard failure such as the remote node crashing,
    in which case running the program again will give "node not currently
    accessable".
    
    Alternatively, it can be due to a network problem, such as overloading,
    lack of buffer space in one of the nodes involved.  In this case,
    running the program again may work for a time, and crash in the
    same way later. In this case, the cause of the network problem should
    be investigated.  Check, for example (using sho/mem/ful) that the
    various memory pools were declared large enough when the VMS system
    was generated -- apparently, if their current values are much larger
    than their initial values, then there may be a problem.
                                                 
    (Problem first reported by Jean-Pol Matheys and Wisla Bozzoli, DECNET
    advice from Giorgio Heiman).