RE: User Poll

On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 13:32, Rob Hagopian wrote:
> 1) There have been posts describing dependancy problems that worry me since
> I spent a lot of time cleaning trees in <= 1.0.4

We're trying to reproduce them here, but it appears devilishly tricky.
Somebody is going to have to help us here-  I can't fix what I can't
see. John has created about the crappiest, messiest, nastiest tree
imaginable. It works fine for me and him. 

If you can make the 1011 snapshot traceback, is there ANY CHANCE you
could give me ssh access for a while to play with it? 

> 2) 1.0.5 appears to work OK on RH 7.2, but there have been concerns with 1.4

1.4 doesn't appear to work on 7.0/7.1

1.4 should work on 7.2/7.3 perfectly, or its a bug. 

(Thats server people - john and I are building the 6.2 client tree right
now, and we've been working on 8.0 client support the whole time)

> 3) I'm concerned with 500 concurrent active connections to the server with
> 1.4 (whereas 1.0.5 inadvertantly works really well because of the single
> threading) [suggestion - have the cron.daily script have a randomized
> minute]

Your suggestion will be in 1.4.2 

Basically current scales as well as apache does.

What does everyone want for the time out - 1 minute? 5? 

I personnaly vote for 5 - that should split up even a thousand clients
to the point where a good solid server could handle them.


> 4) Indeed, we're setting up another 200 servers and I don't really have the
> time right now

I can't fix that one myself. :)


> 
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