Path: utzoo!attcan!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: 21 Dec 89 20:59:53 GMT References: <209@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> <1948@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 39 In-reply-to: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM's message of 21 Dec 89 19:19:19 GMT In article <1948@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes: In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: | 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. If the code you added is the reason we can't get to grape anymore, perhaps you could take another look at the way simtel20 does it. They output a clear message "too many users, try later" or something like that. You mean like this: image.soe [1] %ftp grape.ecs Connected to grape.ecs.clarkson.edu. 220 grape.ecs.clarkson.edu FTP version 890918 NOS ready at Thu Dec 21 15:53:40 1989 331 Enter PASS command 421-Too many ANONYMOUS users at the moment. 421 Please try again later. Login failed. ftp> quit image.soe [2] % Recently we have just been getting "connection timed out" from grape, which of course encourages an immediate retry. That should *not* be happening. Our network was down for ten hours or so the other night, plus grape crashed this morning. Perhaps that was the cause of your troubles? -- --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.