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

[Eric Carling]

There are AR Clusters running in Windows with far more than 60 active
connections. 
 
-------Original Message-------
 
From: t3
Date: 11/23/05 23:07:45
To: The DXSpider Support list
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Hangs revisited (with added bad news)
 
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
>
 
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