Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: grape.ecs.clarkson.edu traffic jam Message-ID: Date: 20 Dec 89 21:40:20 GMT References: <209@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: greene@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM's message of 20 Dec 89 20:48:55 GMT In article <209@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> greene@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (John Greene) writes: This is in regards to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu archives. Lately it has been really difficult to get into this machine because too many people are trying to get files from it at the same time. This is true. I recently (Friday) added code to prohibit new connections if there were already too many (>30) connections. Before I added this code, NOS used to run out of memory. I made the same decision that Keith Petersen did on Simtel20. It's better to provide good service to a few people than to provide unusably bad service to everyone. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee. A recession now appears more than 2 years away -- John D. Mathon, 4 Oct 1989. I think killing is value-neutral in and of itself. -- Gary Strand, 8 Nov 1989. Liberals run this country, by and large. -- Clayton Cramer, 20 Nov 1989. Shut up and mind your Canadian business, you meddlesome foreigner. -- TK, 23 N.