Re: [Pan-users] Re: Question around multi-server and connection errors

[David Kelly]

On Oct 24, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Duncan wrote:

> I'm not actually sure of the status of any related bugs on this at  
> this
> point.

I have a similar bug open, 364061.

> Fortunately for me but unfortunately for fixing this problem, my
> connection seems to be trouble-free enough to trigger something  
> like this
> only rarely, which means it's not something I could effectively
> troubleshoot.

Mine's easy enough to repeat. My Fallback news server is reached thru  
an ssh tunnel. Its configured on localhost:1119. If the tunnel is not  
up then Get New Headers tasks stick in the Task Manager altho marked  
100% complete.

ssh -L 1119:news.remote.whatever:119 login.remote.whatever

stderr also has a lot of "can't open socket" messages.

Agree with Duncan in that this probably is not a simple thing to fix  
correctly. A band-aid might be simple, but the proper cure probably  
rests in the definition and philosophy in the use of parallel servers.

When the tunnel has been down for a while, say a week, then I bring  
it up and Get New Headers, it returns all of the deleted headers from  
when only the Primary was available. I understand why as I don't  
bring the Fallback online until I have a problem with the Primary.  
Somehow I desire additional control. Sort of self-defeating for pan  
to maintain a "deleted message list" when the original motivation for  
deleting messages was to hold down memory use. Then again a rough  
guess is that the current pan runs in 10% to 15% of the original  
memory footprint when dealing with groups in excess of 1E6 messages.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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