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Re: [leafnode-list] Caught in the act! A hung fetchnews process...

[resending to list, first reply was to John only]

On Wed, 01 Oct 2003, John Carlyle- Clarke wrote:

> I hope this is of use.  Checking the logs, I've got a couple of days of fetchnews and texpire aborting, and it seems I've got a hung fetchnews process.
> 
> Sep 29 19:07:26 pc69 fetchnews[11885]: msnews.microsoft.com: connecting to port nntp
> Sep 29 19:07:42 pc69 fetchnews[11885]:   trying:    address 207.46.248.16 port 119...
> Sep 29 19:07:42 pc69 fetchnews[11885]:   connected: address 207.46.248.16 port 119.
> Sep 29 19:07:46 pc69 fetchnews[11885]: msnews.microsoft.com: connected (200), banner: "200 NNTP Serv
> ice 5.00.0984 Version: 5.0.2195.6702 Posting Allowed "


> Sep 29 19:10:48 pc69 fetchnews[11885]: microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion: last seen article was
>  463995, server now has 3 - 463974
> Sep 29 19:10:48 pc69 fetchnews[11885]: microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion: switched upstream ser
> vers? 463995 > 463974
> Sep 29 19:10:48 pc69 fetchnews[11885]: microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion: considering 463972 ar
> ticles 3 - 463974, using XOVER

Two things:

1. Microsoft MUST NOT reset the high article count, not even in case of
   data base damage or larger spam deletions. Complain to the operators.

2. msnews.microsoft.com is DREADFULLY slow (i. e. overloaded). Even a
   "xover 463975-464240" which requests information on 266 articles is
   AWFULLY slow and takes like half a minute to complete. They have a
   load issue.

> I am running leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20030716a.  Apologies that it is not the latest version, but I do hope that this may help to track down this elusive problem.

What you're seeing is not a "hang" but a "slow server" problem. Complain
to Microsoft about the issues above.

I'll release an updated leafnode version that lets "initialfetch" apply
in this case, so you could limit the impact of this problem by setting
initialfetch=500 early in your config file.

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Matthias Andree

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