On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:51:10PM +0100, Dave Hooper wrote:
> > > A little note of warning though. In the past (a couple of months back) I
> saw an
> > > increased frequency of the 'Selector WindowsBug' when my WindowsXP node
> > > reached above 900ish connections. The large amount of occurances of the
> bug-
> > > situation caused my node to stall.
> >
> > A related issue: there is, according to rumour, a registry key that can
> > set win98 to use 256 connections (I think that was the maximum that
> > could be done stably). We need the windows installer to set it if
> necessary
> > and change the config file to have an explicit 128 conn limit. This
> > cannot be easily done from within Fred.
> 
> Interesting.  Is this what you mean?
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=3DKB;EN-US;Q158474&ID=3DKB;EN-US;Q158474
> 
> If so, it appears to affect Win95 & WinME too (since they're all Win9x
> really).  A related Google came up with a user report saying "there have
> been reports saying that setting this value to higher than 300 can cause
> problems".  Similar reports suggested setting MaxConnections to 256.
> 
Yup.

> It's not hard to modify the wininstaller, I'll do it when I have a chance.
> I take it that guy who recently started wininstaller hacking has actually
> wandered away again?

Thanks. Please tell me when it's done.
> 
> d

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