From: Mike N. 


NLMs are  NetWare Loadable Modules (tm).  Think of them as the .EXEs and
.DLLs of the Netware world.

 Cooperative multi-processing means that each of these NLMs is handed the
full processor when its turn to run comes around.  It can hold onto the
processor as long as it wants to, at the expense of the entire rest of the
system.   Hence the jokes about the dog CDROM.NLM that brought the system
to its knees while mounting a CDROM.

   It probably doesn't have anything to do with your problem.   I have no
idea about what server features are available to you, but I'd look along
the lines of connection KeepAlive, dead/zombie connection detection.

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 19:53:16 -0800, Ellen K.
 wrote:

>Could you please explain:
>1.  what that means; and
>2.  the implications for our problem?
>
>It's going to be another year (optimistically IMO) before we can get rid
>of the legacy stuff, so...
>
>On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:18:59 -0500, Mike '/m'  wrote in
>message :
>
>>
>>NLM's use cooperative multi-processing.
>>

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