[Dxspider-support] Miscellaneous stuff

[Kelly Jones]

Hi All,

After much tinkering, I think I have the DX-Central node settled down.

Regarding the "hangs", what I seemed to notice in many of the incidents is 
that the hang would occur when the cron ran.  I had a single line in the 
cron for a KE9KD-2 connection check.  It's quite possible that running an 
older version of Perl (5.6.0) and not compiled for multi-thread coupled 
with the fact it could take ~30 seconds or more to establish a connect to 
(the then up) KE9KD-2 box was causing everything to get stuck in queue 
until the KE9KD-2 connection was either made or timed out.

I also downloaded the latest Perl (5.8.0) and compiled it for 
multi-thread.  Of course doing this forced me to recompile all of the 
modules that Spider uses, but what else did I have to do (besides sleep ;-) ).

Between removing the KE9KD-2 connection check and/or upgrading Perl seems 
to have fixed my "hang" problem.  At least I'm not noticing it like I was 
earlier.  I can't wait to see how it performs during the contests.

Thanks for everyone's suggestions.  I think we have ignition.

73
Kelly - KE9KD
http://www.dx-central.com