Re: POP3 Audit

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

Em Sáb, 06 Out 2001 03:29:53 Peter Bloomfield escreveu:

> The problem is *much* more frequent when I have a slow connection to the 
> IMAP server (> 500 ms ping time, for instance), so I infer that it's 
> related to long blocked reads. I've never seen it on checking my POP3 
> server, but the ping time there is always around 20 ms--do you ever have 
> delays with yours?
> 
ok, i've seen it too but so sparsely i always atributed it to gremlins
(ie. i couldn't reproduce it so i couldn't trace to cause)
my standing hunch is read is getting interrupted by a stray signal raised
by  another thread.

> I also have the *impression*, not backed up by serious observation, that if 
> Balsa fails in this way, and I restart it immediately, it starts 
> successfully, which suggests to me that something outside Balsa is 
> involved--some condition that gets cleared by the fail. However, I may be 
> fooling myself there...
> 
like dns cache ?

> One last clue: a while ago, before some upgrade (and there've been so 
> many!), I used to get a console message `program received real-time signal 
> 32' when this type of failure happened; now there's nothing.
> 
upgrade ? glibc ? glib ?

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