Robert E. Williams, Jr. ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> As I already mentioned, I didn't notice it to be particularly slow last
> night. The problem for me was that the POP server wasn't responding...
> that's it. Everything else was fine. I'm not really sure, but I'd guess it
> started around 9:00. As usual, I could send mail all I wanted, but couldn't
> retrieve. I've never been unable to do anything else when just this's
> happening, such as read NetNews or surf the web (inlcuding Miami-served
> pages).
 
Hey, Kent, maybe we need to check the listen() queue length for incoming
connections on the POP server software too? Bumping that up sure seemed
to improve the web server's performance, and POP tends to do that
repeated connection stuff, same as a web server.
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