ahby@com2serv.C2S.MN.ORG (ahby) (05/02/88)
In article <146@hawkmoon.MN.ORG> det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer) writes: >I have been running multicast on herman, lily, elric, corum, and hawkmoon for >some months now and have not had any problems (well, major ones to speak of). >The only problem that i can think of is if one doesn't actually "cast" the >articles frequently enough the list of articles to cast-about gets too large to >fit into memory and malloc() fails. Simple solution: run the multibatch script >more frequently. I run mine about 4 or 6 times a day and feed about 10-15 >systems or so. Let me clarify something hjere. Derek is running MULTICAST using some software that was written by myself and a few others here in Minnesota. The multibatch he refers to part of a system we put together that allows the broadcasting of news to multiple downstream sites using the MULTICAST code in B News. This has been posted to the net before, but maybe it is time to do so again. If anyone has any questions about this package, feel free to contact me.