high load on NNTP server

high load on NNTP server

[Pavel Janik ml.]

Hi,

one of NNTP servers I use (news.freshmeat.net) can be off when it has high
load:

SnowWhite:/home/pavel$ telnet news.freshmeat.net 119
Trying 209.207.224.217...
Connected to news.freshmeat.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 load at 16, try later
Connection closed by foreign host.

When I'm trying to gnus-group-get-new-news, Gnus will report this as:

Process nntpd<1> not running

with no report of offending NNTP server. It is not good, I think. If I'd like
to know what server is it I must switch to *Messages* and look for it.
-- 
Pavel Janík ml.
Pavel.Janik@inet.cz

Re: high load on NNTP server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janik ml.) writes:

> When I'm trying to gnus-group-get-new-news, Gnus will report this as:
> 
> Process nntpd<1> not running

Do you get a backtrace if you set `debug-on-error'?

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: high load on NNTP server

[Pavel Janik ml.]

   From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
   Date: 20 Apr 2000 01:47:18 +0200

Hi,

   > > When I'm trying to gnus-group-get-new-news, Gnus will report this as:
   > > 
   > > Process nntpd<1> not running
   > 
   > Do you get a backtrace if you set `debug-on-error'?

here it is:

backtrace:

Signaling: (error "Process nntpd<1> not running")
  process-send-string(#<process nntpd<1>> "GROUP fm.announce
... binary code removed - see my next bug report...
[group dont-check method gnus-command-method info
gnus-override-method nil intern-soft gnus-group-name-to-method 2 4 "native"
assoc format "%s:%s" "+" intern "%s-address" "" symbol-name address
"-address" physical-address append request-group error "Attempted use of a
nil select method" gnus-server-to-method gnus-agent-get-function
gnus-method-functions "%s-%s" put fboundp "Trying to require a method that
doesn't exist" require "No such function: %s" string-match "^[^:]+:" 0
gnus-select-method gnus-newsrc-hashtb server gnus-server-alist
gnus-predefined-server-alist gnus-opened-servers opened
gnus-secondary-select-methods servers method-name gnus-valid-select-methods]
7)
  gnus-activate-group("nntp+news.freshmeat.net:fm.announce" scan)
  gnus-get-unread-articles(nil)
  gnus-group-get-new-news(nil)
* call-interactively(gnus-group-get-new-news)



nntp-log:


20000421T215142.905 news.freshmeat.net MODE READER
20000421T215144.715 news.freshmeat.net MODE READER
20000421T215146.293 news.freshmeat.net MODE READER
20000421T215147.803 news.freshmeat.net MODE READER
20000421T215147.818 news.freshmeat.net GROUP fm.announce



SnowWhite:/home/pavel$ telnet news.freshmeat.net 119
Trying 209.207.224.217...
Connected to news.freshmeat.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
400 load at 16, try later
Connection closed by foreign host.

:-)) Hope this helps.
-- 
Pavel Janík ml.
Pavel.Janik@inet.cz

Re: high load on NNTP server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janik ml.) writes:

> Signaling: (error "Process nntpd<1> not running")
>   process-send-string(#<process nntpd<1>> "GROUP fm.announce
> ... binary code removed - see my next bug report...

I think you removed the bit I needed to see -- which nntp function
bugged out.

[...]

> SnowWhite:/home/pavel$ telnet news.freshmeat.net 119
> Trying 209.207.224.217...
> Connected to news.freshmeat.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 400 load at 16, try later
> Connection closed by foreign host.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

Re: high load on NNTP server

[Shenghuo ZHU]

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

LMI> Pavel.Janik@inet.cz (Pavel Janik ml.) writes:
>> Signaling: (error "Process nntpd<1> not running")
>> process-send-string(#<process nntpd<1>> "GROUP fm.announce
>> ... binary code removed - see my next bug report...

LMI> I think you removed the bit I needed to see -- which nntp function
LMI> bugged out.

Hope the patch that I am committing fixes the bug.

PS, the server is slow. 

-- 
Shenghuo

Re: high load on NNTP server

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Shenghuo ZHU <zsh@cs.rochester.edu> writes:

> PS, the server is slow. 

Yeah; I'm trying to install pdftex, but it requires a new teTeX, which
requires a new make and Xaw3d, which requires a new X11.  So poor
Quimby has been running "cvs co" and "make install" continuously for a
day now, it seems.

And it's still not finished.

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen