Re: [foxboro] OSISoft PI Startup on P90 Windows 2003 Server

On Windows, I'd kill process using Task Manager. For program running on
services - i'd use SC STOP YOUR_PROGRAM command from Command Prompt.
Regards.

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Corey R Clingo <corey.clingo@xxxxxxxx>wrote:

> What exactly is the Windows equivalent of "kill <process>"?  Does Windows
> have signals?  Does the Foxboro Winix have signals?  And what does Windows
> do to a program when it shuts down, since there are no kill scripts
> (/etc/rc0.d/Knnxxxx) scripts like Solaris has?
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> > FoxAPI doesn't do a very
> > good job closing the lists and giving up resources when you stop fxbais
> > no matter which way you start it, so you end up having to reboot the box
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> Well, there goes another case of reduced functionalities as one "upgrades"
> to Windows. On one of my Solaris boxes used for PI interface, I haven't
> had to reboot it in nearly two years (I had stopped and restarted the
> interface many times).
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> 03AW01-dmdo> uptime
>  5:51pm  up 651 day(s),  4:06,  2 users,  load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.04
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> But ... progress marches on.
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> On Behalf Of Lowell, Timothy
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> So, fxbais.exe doesn't run as a service, then?  The QF supposedly fixed
> that problem on Win2K3 Server.  The go_FXBAIS file is the tried and true
> method.
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> We have the PI interface running on Windows XP here in Hawaii, and the
> QF doesn't address running fxbais.exe as service on that operating
> system.  We also use go_FXBAIS and it works great.  We even have two
> interfaces running on the same P92 with no problems.  There really isn't
> much advantage to running it as a service.  FoxAPI doesn't do a very
> good job closing the lists and giving up resources when you stop fxbais
> no matter which way you start it, so you end up having to reboot the box
> anyway if you make any changes to the interface itself (adding and
> deleting points works OK, just not adding new scan classes, for
> example).
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> Tim Lowell
> Control Systems Engineer
> Tesoro Petroleum Company
> 210-626-4929 (w)
> 210-253-0225 (c)
> Timothy.Lowell@xxxxxxxxxxx
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