David Earl wrote: >Sent: 08 February 2008 11:35 AM >To: Tom Hughes >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Error while uploading with JOSM > >On 08/02/2008 11:17, Tom Hughes wrote: >... >>> BUT, there appears to be a server setting for lighttpd >>> 'max-keep-alive-requests' (default 128 - what is it on ours?) after >>> which the connection is dropped. >> >> The config is in the repo: >> >> http://svn.openstreetmap.org/sites/rails_port/config/lighttpd.conf >> >> but we don't set that at all, so it is whatever the default is, which >> according to the doco is 16 requests with a 30 second idle timeout. > >Hmm. So it does. The first page I got Googling it was >http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/performancelighttpd.htm >which says it is 128. I guess I should believe lighttpd.net > > >> The only thing is that allowing too much keep-alive might lead to >> people managing to "hog" the server. > >Indeed. > > >So what is causing this consistent upload failure at around 250 >requests? Is this also something only I'm seeing in this completely >consistent way, or does everyone get this? (Or do most people upload >less more often so not get into the position in the first place?) > >David
I certainly used to see the same thing last year on Virgin and I had a number of discussions with Tom on irc trying to work out what was going wrong. The problem for me has simply gone away since I changed away from virgin. Cheers Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev

