Flushing the buffer would be a bad thing since page_to_char relies on having the info in there. The buffer is flushed after all data is sent and there is no paging on at that moment.
Ammaross Danan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Barton Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Disconnects It seems like there'd be some way to flush the buffer when it gets full instead of just increasing its size.. I don't know, I haven't looked at it that much. On Tuesday 19 November 2002 01:44 pm, Ammaross wrote: > Actually, it isn't the client at all. It is in a little function known > as write_to_buffer(). Check it out: > if (d->outsize >= 32000) > { > bug("Buffer overflow. Closing.\n\r",0); > close_socket(d); > return; > } > > If you check your logs, you'll probably find some of these. Up your > '32000' value to maybe...1000000 (give or take) and you'll probably be > fine for a while. ;P > > Ammaross Danan > > <snip> > The problem is that your client can't handle all of the information > being sent to it's buffers, so it's disconnecting you. The same > problem will pop itself > up if you are stuck in a fight that dumps a ton of lines of information > to > your client. > > On Tuesday 19 November 2002 11:50 am, Hiddukel wrote: > > I have been having a problem for some time now, I've tried > > everything I can think of to solve the problem but all I end up > > doing is working around it for a while and then it shows itself > > again in other places. My problem is that I am being disconnected > > whenever a large amount of data is sent to me by the server. The > > first place I noticed it was in > > > > alist. I changed the alist command so that it takes arguments for > > the > > > > start vnum and end vnum of the areas you want listed. This works ok > > except if you do alist 1 100, then it disconnects you because it's > > too instead of just increasing the buffer size.. I don't know, I > > haven't looked at it. > > much data. I know that I can set my scroll value to something other > > than 0 and it will page to me and not disconnect me, but this is > > also a workaround. My thinking is that since ROM uses the telnet > > protocol (and I've never been disconnected from telnet due to > > massive amounts of data being sent to me) then there should be some > > way to fix this. Any help on this matter would be greatly > > appreciated. > > > > Thanks, > > Matt Bradbury > > </snip> -- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
