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Re: Leafnode server problem.

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From: John Thompson
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 00:00
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In <35F7A7A4.702898E6@cableinet.co.uk>, Barry O'Neill <boneil@cableinet.co.uk> writes:
>John Thompson wrote:
>
>> Occassinally I have been able to get fetch to start up and begin
>> to download an active list from my ISP, but I've never managed to
>> go beyond this.  I've never gotten a complete active list yet,
>> and certainly no articles.  And God, is it slow!  I suspect fetch
>> only runs a single thread to connect to the remote host.  The
>> longest it ran was for almost an hour and it still only managed
>> to get part of the active list.  My OS/2 server package (changi)
>> uses a multi-threaded "fetch" utility that can download my ISP's
>> active list in less than ten minutes using eight simultaneous
>> connections.  I tried downloading the active list with changi in
>> OS/2 and copying the file to where leafnode could use it, but
>> leafnode didn't like something about this and went into a
>> prolonged pout again.

>If you use "fetch -vvv", you'll get a clearer idea of what's happening
>the first time you run it.  

That's what I've been running.  All that generally happens is an 
immediate "segmentation fault."  A couple times, as I said, it 
has started to download the active list, but it's never managed 
to complete that before seg faulting on me and has never gotten 
to the point where it starts to download articles.

-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net)
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From: nospam@savebandwidth.com    (John Thompson)
Subject: Re: Leafnode server problem.
Date: 1998/09/11
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