Subj : Re: busy nodes
To   : Datalus
From : bcw142
Date : Thu Jan 28 2021 09:22:31

On 16 Nov 2020, Datalus said the following...
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 Da> Hey Guys,
 Da> anyone using A47 have this problem of busy nodes? I have used the mis
 Da> killbusy all command and it kills the busy node  problem but when it
 Da> ties to send mail again it comes back. Any suggestions?
 Da> Thanks Datalus

So that was the original message. I too see that busy node issue, but I
suspect it's my own polling scripts that are doing it. In my case I poll my
feeds (Agency & Necronomicon) which generally works, but then I poll my points
which will perhaps be busy as I poll from both addresses. I suspect I need to
add some busy & retry checks in to the polling script. The other thing to try
is polling one at a time or allowing some wait for each to finish (seconds).
I poll the system as 21:1/145 (which works fine), but then as 80:603/0 which
will usually times out with that busy message. I'm sure that it's what I am
doing that causes it since I'm in control of all of the ones except the
original feeds. If I got busy from the feeds I'd change when I polled or try
to work in some retry method. What I see there is Agency mostly goes through
and I get some busy messages from Necronomicon.
Anyway, look to your polling scripts as I'm sure that's most of the cause on
mine ;) We need some lessons in better polling script handling from Avon who
seems the best at it.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
 * Origin: Mystic Pi BBS bcw142.zapto.org (21:1/145)

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