[15341] in Athena Bugs
Re: 8/2: post office outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Coppeto)
Sat Aug 2 21:34:41 1997
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 02 Aug 1997 19:44:59 EDT."
<199708022344.TAA04565@portnoy.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 21:34:06 EDT
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
> While the PO servers were down hard, many users experienced a
> 200-second delay while logging in when /usr/athena/bin/from ran (from
> the default xsession) and tried to connect().
I would argue this is a bug in the default xession. It shouldn't depend so
much on making a tcp connection to something that doesn't have anything to
do with logging in, let alone having to parse potentially gobs of mail
before getting a shell. I wrote the from "bolt" as a more permanent means
of disabling the command and having to release the config volume doesn't
work very well for small outages. I wouldn't mind seeing the xsession from
replaced with a technotify call as it is more designed for that function
and times out on the order of seconds rather than minutes.
- Tom
