Subj : Is this thing on?
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Nicholas Boel
Date : Sun Apr 17 2022 09:00 am

Hello Wilfred,

On Sat Apr 16 2022 21:15:04, you wrote to me:

 NB>> Not sure what to tell you. Anything I write should leave here to
 NB>> all links at roughly the same time. Does the order of callouts
 NB>> have anything to do with how you list nodes in binkd.conf? If so,
 NB>> my list starts with 1: and 2: is further down the list in
 NB>> numerical order. Otherwise, who knows.

 WV> It of course depends on in what order your tosser presents the files
 WV> to binkd. But besides that it should handle most of the outgoing mail
 WV> in parallel, unless you have your maxclients set to a low value...

 WV> But your log should be able to tell you what happend (if you're
 WV> interested enough ;-))...

Besides what is already out in the open, the other things I can think of is (1) an issue that I'm in the process of resolving is that 301/1 connects here about 1500 times per day, and roughly 1450 of them are failed connections.. This I can't really do anything about until I get a response, and (2) with over 100 links, if 1 or more of them are down and maxclients is set to a low number, it delays as long as it takes for the connection to timeout - which can also hold things up quite a bit. Every once in awhile I look into this and remove dead or unresponsive links. What else more can I say?

I don't remember why I originally set my maxclients to a lower value, but something not happening the way I wanted it to in the past made me do it. That said, I've raised it for now to see if it makes things faster. However, if I start having other issues because of it.. 4 minutes in transit is still better than a week or more via snail mail. ;)

Regards,
Nick

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