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 -- Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so.
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