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<DIV>There are AR Clusters running in Windows with far more than 60 active connections. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>From:</B></I> <A href="mailto:t3@semarg.ath.cx">t3</A></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><I><B>Date:</B></I> 11/23/05 23:07:45</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> Re: [Dxspider-support] Hangs revisited (with added bad news)</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Oh Boy..</DIV>
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<DIV>now thats a EGO smasher..</DIV>
<DIV>for windows users, any hope for us in the neer future?</DIV>
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<DIV>Tony</DIV>
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<DIV>Dirk Koopman wrote:</DIV>
<DIV>> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:20 +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>>> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 09:22 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:</DIV>
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<DIV>>>> Has there been any resolution (or proposed fix) for the (seeming) inability</DIV>
<DIV>>>> to take more than ~60 connections? I currently have 36 users and 26 node</DIV>
<DIV>>>> connections. Spider simply refuses to allow any more. My CPU load is</DIV>
<DIV>>>> nearly nothing, but I am not able to log in any additional</DIV>
<DIV>>>> nodes/users. This is not a firewall/sessions/whatever problem.</DIV>
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<DIV>>> But, as I said earlier: there are no limits in the code. Several people</DIV>
<DIV>>> on here (please speak up) have had connections running into the more</DIV>
<DIV>>> than 100. For instance:</DIV>
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<DIV>>> G1TLH-2 de GB7TLH 19-Nov-2005 1811Z dxspider > rcmd ed7zab-5 sh/cl</DIV>
<DIV>>> ED7ZAB-5: 172 nodes, 110 local / 1011 total users Max users 1147</DIV>
<DIV>>> Uptime 7 01:34</DIV>
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<DIV>>> A 'links' and count up of nodes adds another 26 or so. Which is already</DIV>
<DIV>>> more than double 60.</DIV>
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<DIV>>> I know that this is a pretty average number for Angel, he has had many</DIV>
<DIV>>> more connections.</DIV>
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<DIV>> It appears that we have a problem for Windows users. Without going to</DIV>
<DIV>> huge amounts of detail: there is a limitation of a total of 64 open</DIV>
<DIV>> sockets in Windows.</DIV>
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<DIV>> What this means is that Windows DXSpider nodes can only handle about 60</DIV>
<DIV>> active connections to nodes and users, per instance of DXSpider.</DIV>
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<DIV>> As it stands, at the moment, there is no obvious way around this and it</DIV>
<DIV>> does not seem to matter what version of Windows you run.</DIV>
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<DIV>> If having loads of users is important to you, then I am afraid that</DIV>
<DIV>> using Linux is, currently, your only option.</DIV>
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<DIV>> Dirk G1TLH</DIV>
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