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Re: Another Athena problem with VMware Suspend: zwgc hangup.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Mar 18 13:32:34 2008

From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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Yes, that sound like the issue.  I suspect I mis-observed a 
problem with z-grams going away.  Thanks for the reminder of that
aspect.

-Bill

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:35 -0400, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
> I'm not sure about zwgc dying ang your windowgrams going away.
> However, if you're off the net for a while (I think somewhere between
> 5 and 15 minutes) and the zephyr servers try to communicate with you
> (to deliver a zgram or whatever), they'll decide that your
> machine/client is dead, and drop your subscriptions.
> 
> 	Jonathon
> 
> 
> > I was doing more testing with suspending the Athena VM image for a  
> > while.
> > This time it was not gone long enough to lose network, but zwgc hung.
> > When I resumed, my windograms were gone, and attempts to send myself
> > a zephyr failed.  (The z-gram was received on my other logins but not  
> > the Athena one.)
> > 
> > Killing and restarting zwgc remedied the problem.
> > 
> > -Bill
> > 
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> > William Cattey
> > Linux Platform Coordinator
> > MIT Information Services & Technology
> > 
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