I'm not sure which client multiplexer we're using right now on jabber.org but I know that I've seen this problem with jpolld. It seems to actually be a problem with freeing up file descriptors at the OS level but I don't know enough to say more than that. :)
Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pat Mahoney wrote: > (please cc: me, not subscribed) > > (using gabber 0.8.5 and jabber.org) > > Numerous times my roster claims a contact is available when in fact he > is not. It seems to happen when he (a dialup user) kills pppd without > explicitly logging out of jabber. He can remain in this state of limbo > indefinitely (I've witnessed a 6 hour stretch). It seems that he only > remains in limbo as long as no one attempts to contact him in any way > (either chatting or trying to extract client info, etc). > > Even after someone (me) tries to chat with him while he is in limbo, it > takes a few (5, 10? I'm not really sure, and it varies) minutes for > the roster to report him as offline. > > I'm sorry I don't have a good reproducible case. I consider this a bug > though, as it is extremely annoying. For what it's worth, I never saw > this back when I used AIM, though I don't believe I ever had a buddy > who had no other buddies aside from me (as is the case with this > particluar jabber user). > > -- > Pat Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
