[10129] in Athena Bugs
Re: zephyr servers should warn user before removing subscriptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Wed Dec 9 18:11:26 1992
To: Ron Newman <rnewman@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [10128] in Athena Bugs
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 92 18:11:05 EST
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> When a zephyr server becomes heavily loaded, it sometimes
> reduces its load by removing certain subscriptions from certain
> users. I'm not sure how it makes this decision, but it would be
> nice if the server would send a zgram to such users warning what
> it is about to do.
This is *not* whats going on. Subs are lost because of a number
of possible reasons: database corruption, lost packets, dropped
packets, etc. They are not just expunged for the hell of it....
If a server KNEW it was losing a subscription, don't you think it
would just re-sub itself???
Sorry, Ron, but your reasoning here is lacking. No offense. If
you can actually track down the bug in the Zephyr server and send
a patch, I'm *sure* that 4000 MIT students and staff would be forever
in your debt!
-derek
