[Dxspider-support] Hang hang and some more hang...

[Kelly Jones]

As I came down to the shack this morning, I was greeted with the same 
symptoms described below.  In less than 12 hours I was no longer able to 
log into my node.  As a test, last night I started the node from the 
command line instead of as a Windows service.  As soon as I hit cntrl-c, my 
echo was printed on the screen, then the node proceded to shut down - I 
found this interesting.  It's as though some buffer somewhere fills up then 
just stops responding.

I received a private email from another sysop that said he started seeing 
the exact same symptoms during the CQWW SSB contest.  Something *is* going 
on here, but I don't know what it is.  I do know I can't keep recycling my 
node every 12 hours.....

Anybody else seeing this?

Kelly



At 06:21 PM 11/12/2005, you wrote:
>This is starting to irritate me....
>
>It seems that once I get above 40 or so users something stops 
>working.  The scenario is that I connect to the node, it asks for my call, 
>I type it in, hit enter... nothing.  It just sits there for the 60 seconds 
>then disconnects me.
>
>If I am a user that is already connected, the system is as snappy as can 
>be.  It only happens to new, incoming connections.  At this moment I have 
>41 users and 19 nodes.  If I try to connect either as a node or user, I 
>get the above scenario.
>
>This started happening a couple of weeks ago while still running an older 
>version of Spider on Linux.  I was hoping that it would go away after I 
>switched to Windows with the latest and greatest of Spider and Activesate 
>Perl, but apparently not.  Has anybody seen this before or have a 
>suggestion as to where to look for the problem?  Something that is 
>interesting is that when it happens, I no longer get an echo back from the 
>system.  When it's working, the echo returns every keystroke.  The only 
>way I have found to "fix" it is to recycle the cluster and wait for it to 
>happens again...
>
>Kelly - N0VD
>
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