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 (Randy Kaelber) writes:
> Robert E. Williams, Jr. ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>> As I already mentioned, I didn't notice it to be particularly slow last
>> night. The problem for me was that the POP server wasn't responding...
>> that's it. Everything else was fine. I'm not really sure, but I'd guess it
>> started around 9:00. As usual, I could send mail all I wanted, but couldn't
>> retrieve. I've never been unable to do anything else when just this's
>> happening, such as read NetNews or surf the web (inlcuding Miami-served
>> pages).
>
> Hey, Kent, maybe we need to check the listen() queue length for incoming
> connections on the POP server software too? Bumping that up sure seemed
> to improve the web server's performance, and POP tends to do that
> repeated connection stuff, same as a web server.
 
We've had problems from time to time with the POP server and I'm trying to
resolve them with Innosoft.  The backlog queue length doesn't seem to be
the cause of the problems with the POP server though.
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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