[Dxspider-support] Hangs revisited (with added bad news)

[t3]

Oh Boy..

now thats a EGO smasher..
for windows users,  any hope for us in the neer future?

Tony



Dirk Koopman wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:20 +0000, Dirk Koopman wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 09:22 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote:
>>     
>>> Has there been any resolution (or proposed fix) for the (seeming) inability 
>>> to take more than ~60 connections?  I currently have 36 users and 26 node 
>>> connections.  Spider simply refuses to allow any more.  My CPU load is 
>>> nearly nothing, but I am not able to log in any additional 
>>> nodes/users.  This is not a firewall/sessions/whatever problem.
>>>       
>> But, as I said earlier: there are no limits in the code. Several people
>> on here (please speak up) have had connections running into the more
>> than 100. For instance: 
>>
>> G1TLH-2 de GB7TLH 19-Nov-2005 1811Z dxspider > rcmd ed7zab-5 sh/cl
>> ED7ZAB-5: 172 nodes, 110 local / 1011 total users  Max users 1147
>> Uptime 7 01:34
>>
>> A 'links' and count up of nodes adds another 26 or so. Which is already
>> more than double 60. 
>>
>> I know that this is a pretty average number for Angel, he has had many
>> more connections.
>>     
>
> It appears that we have a problem for Windows users. Without going to
> huge amounts of detail: there is a limitation of a total of 64 open
> sockets in Windows. 
>
> What this means is that Windows DXSpider nodes can only handle about 60
> active connections to nodes and users, per instance of DXSpider.
>
> As it stands, at the moment, there is no obvious way around this and it
> does not seem to matter what version of Windows you run. 
>
> If having loads of users is important to you, then I am afraid that
> using Linux is, currently, your only option.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>