[966] in SIPB bug reports
Re: problem with webster server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Mar 18 19:51:31 1990
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 90 19:51:02 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: John D. Kubiatowicz's message of Sun, 18 Mar 90 19:38:58 EST,
This is a known problem.
The reason for this is that webster is built on top of a broken
pseudo-remote-procedure-call system (the same one which NFS is built
on top of) which can't deal with remote calls which take potentially
unbounded time to execute.
If the spelling correction code was ripped out of websterd, this
problem would go away, but its functionality would also be
significantly reduced.
Maybe the correct solution is to write a webster client which just
opens up the dictionary (it's currently in AFS in the SIPB cell..
that's where the webster server on Portnoy gets it from...) so the
client can just sit there and chew on things for as long as it wants
to.
- Bill
