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<DIV>My Spider lock-ups are, it seems, due to the AGW problem described by Lee. Previously I reported the AGWPE error msg I get. I hadn't looked in the debug file so I can now add that the lockup follows several lines of:</DIV>
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<DIV>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!<BR>1130546490^AGW error Unsolicited Data!</DIV>
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<DIV>I know that some Spiders are crashing that don't use AGW so there is more than one cause though obviously related to the massive data rate during the contest. When spot rates are exceeding 1200 per hour I can put money on my cluster locking up. I'm going to try the process priority change noted below.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:eric@g0cgl.f2s.com">Eric Carling</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 10/31/05 19:51:21</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:dxspider-support@dxcluster.org">The DXSpider Support list</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> [Dxspider-support] Fw: AGW and Spider</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV> From Lee VE7CC</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:ve7cc@shaw.ca">Lee Sawkins</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 10/31/05 19:42:46</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>To:</B></I> <A href="mailto:eric@g0cgl.f2s.com">Eric Carling</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Subject:</B></I> AGW and Spider</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>(I see I am still unable to post to the Spider reflector. I receive all</DIV>
<DIV>the mail, I just can't send my comments. If you could forward this to</DIV>
<DIV>the reflector, it would be appreciated).</DIV>
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<DIV>The AGW - Spider problem is unique to Spider. I run one instance of AGW</DIV>
<DIV>and it services both Spider and ARC. All in the same Win 2K computer.</DIV>
<DIV>Quite often the Spider - AGW part quits working, but never the ARC -</DIV>
<DIV>AGW.</DIV>
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<DIV>My suspicion is that the problem is caused by the fact that Spider is</DIV>
<DIV>much faster than ARC and AGW is unable to handle the traffic. During</DIV>
<DIV>the contest my Spider to AGW link failed but the ARC to AGW ran fine.</DIV>
<DIV>This was with just one user of AGW connected to Spider and 10 users</DIV>
<DIV>connected to the ARC. The one Spider user was our group at VE7SV's</DIV>
<DIV>mountain top which doesn't have high speed internet. We use 1200 baud</DIV>
<DIV>packet. We had to change to the ARC cluster, which ran fine for the</DIV>
<DIV>rest of the contest.</DIV>
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<DIV>My latest attempt to fix this problem is to bump up the process priority</DIV>
<DIV>of AGW to "above normal" and see if this helps. AGW, like most other</DIV>
<DIV>programs defaults to "normal" priority. I may even try "high" priority</DIV>
<DIV>if it doesn't cause trouble at "above normal".</DIV>
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<DIV>Running Spider (actually Perl) at "above normal" causes my telnet proxy</DIV>
<DIV>to loose data as it cannot handle the data fast enough. This is with</DIV>
<DIV>the proxy running at "high", which is its default. Spider has to run at</DIV>
<DIV>"normal".</DIV>
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<DIV>Lee</DIV>
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