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

[Jim Snider]

My Fedora Core 3 system appears to have quit working around the CQWW
timeframe also.  I'm still digging through the logs.

Jim W8BS

On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 08:14 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
> 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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