Many dialup connections are regularly reset. They probably would have locked his account if he had gone over bandwidth or connection time. Getting disconnected is just a fact of life. ~Paul
On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:08:53 +0100, Toad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You have no idea WHY it lost the connection to the ISP? Did they contact > you to complain about bandwidth usage or anything? How do you connect to > the internet? Has that changed recently? > > > On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 06:38:37PM -0400, Nicholas Sturm wrote: > > Restarted freenet last night. Slow to make contacts but by an hour later > > 62 were open and freenet seemed to be behaving nicely together with SETI > > running. CPU at 100% but behavior was what I now call "normal." > > > > At about noon today I checked and data transferred was many megs and > > messages were at about 15,000 on two most active connections. Checked mail > > and came back about an hour later to find that SETI had transmitted results > > and was "not" maximized any longer. Then I realized that system seemed > > inactive. ISP had closed connection and I had some difficulty getting > > anything to respond. Finally after right click on rabbit in tray, I was > > able to open popup window and stopped freenet. Few things started to show > > apparent activity and I could then maximize SETI and it had completed about > > 6% of a job after sending and bringing down a new job. > > > > I then reconnected and restarted freenet and function seemed to return. I > > checked the log and it showed a very long segment of failures. (Log was at > > about 2.5 megs.) Errors continued abundantly as I expected since contact > > had been lost from other nodes for some time. Shut down. (To do other > > work.) About three hours later I tried to restart, but experience little > > success. Log hung when I tried to work back through the log (problem > > here?). Finally shut down OS and restarted. > > > > The apparent hang from shut down of ISP connection I had not observed > > before (not to say that I actually know it never did). Is this common? > > Will freenet do this when only it is producing high CPU usage or could it > > be because two programs were trying to work at maximum level (SETI & > > freenet)? Should freenet not detect loss of internet connection and not go > > blindly on with unsuccessful high usage? I would think that when finally > > operating this should not be allowed to happen as ISP closure would > > certainly not be uncommon with large numbers of nodes running (even if it > > only happens with multiple high demands on CPU). > > > > Recently checked thread usage and seems seldom to go beyond 700 even when > > system very busy. > > > > Oh, 2KWin and Sun Java (recent). 256 memory. Dial up connection. ~18.6 > > hard drives capacity each of two(C: pretty high, about 1.5 gig open, D: > > with about 4-5 gig open). What else important? > > > > Nick > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Support mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > > Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > > Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Matthew J Toseland - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ > ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. > > > > signature.asc - 1K > noname - 1K Download > _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
