[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: What Are Very Large Latch Ids?

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> I understand (more or less) how not to kill a process while it hold a multiplexed latch (like BUF or LKT). But should we care about the private latches or the administrative latches when we are going to use kill -9? For many of them you will have the same miserable experience if you kill -9 a user holding one of those admin type latches. ... but not all of them. Some are used more as a locking mechanism than a latching mechanism so a user can be kill -9 and release its lock type latch. Yes, I know this muddies the waters even more. The ones to be careful of are when adding BI extents, JTA/XA list management, on-line object creation and during auditing. The difficulty is that it is hard to tell if you have these held or not. Something should be added to promon/vsts for them

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