dglasser@yale.UUCP (Dan Glasser) (08/08/84)
I'm on a VAX 750 running 4.1bsd, but am running the version of UUCP that comes with the regular 4.2bsd distribution. When I tried to send large files (> 35-40 blocks) to other places, UUCP times out. It appears as if the problem is with the packet routines. It only happens when I send large files out, because I have received files of much larger sizes with no problem. Has anyone had a similar problem with UUCP? Does anyone know enough about the packet routines to be able to make any suggestions? Danny Glasser decvax!yale!dglasser (UUCP) (formerly yale-comix!dglasser) Glasser-Daniel@YALE (ARPA)
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/11/84)
We had this problem when talking to a Sun 100 (both of us using an
older UUCP). It was due to xmv() taking forever to move the completed
4M file to a different partition. The simple solution was to increase
the timeouts to about 10 times the previous value.
I thought the 4.2 UUCP was supposed to have compensation code for large
files, though, so maybe that isn't it. But it wasn't clear from your
message *which* uucico was timing out.
Anyway, timeouts are fine for programs like UUCP, but I sometimes
wonder where people come up with the actual values used. . . .
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While the "easiest" way to get around it is to increase MAXMSGTIME, the clean way is to make the wait time depend on the file size. Guess which version of uucp does this? Peter PS: According to an insider, release of same is delayed 'til 3rd quarter.