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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: 2 questions, pc slowing down, and dialer/multisessions
Date: 7 Oct 1997 17:39:43 GMT
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In article <1997Oct7.105948.1@gems.vcu.edu>,
Brainwave Surfer <agnew@gems.vcu.edu> wrote:
: Dear Netpeople, I've got a real good one...
:
: i'm using Kermit v1.1.11,
:
: i use one copy of the dialer, and typically open 'bout 4 telnet sessions at a
: time to the vaxen... most of which are running v5.5-2, one v6.?
: the one i'm using the most is running UCX, or Ultra Crude coneXtion ;-)
:
: the other is Multinet, and the peecee is running win95 B.
:
: ok, the thing is that periodically the pc slows waayy down, and i get a ROAR
: from the fan. both the power supply and the disk has been replaced by Dell.
:
Hmmm... Kermit 95 is written in Microsoft C, not assembler, so if there are
any OPSAF (Overheat Power Supply and Accelerate Fan) instructions in the
executable, that would be a bug in the Microsoft code generator, not the K95
source code, since you can't do that from ANSI C.
: Anyone else seen this?
:
This is a great example of what it's like to support software applications
for Windows. NOBODY knows what's going on underneath that pretty face.
Something bad happens to just about everybody, but it's hardly ever the same
thing.
I would be really surprised if this was caused by anything specific to Kermit
95, except that nothing surprises me any more. One possibility is simply that
your PC is tight on memory and so is swapping itself to death. What happens
if you shut down some apps and/or add more memory?
: my second question is: should I use one copy of the dialer for each telnet
: session, or isit ok to keep spinning out connects from the same dialer?
:
You should (a) patch up to K95 version 1.1.15:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95patch.html
and then (b) happily start up as many sessions as you like from the same copy
of the Dialer -- that's what it's for! -- within the limitations of your PC.
Upgrading to the current release is always recommended, because that's the one
we support. But it's especially recommended in this case because earlier
releases of the Dialer did not allow multiple connections to the same entry,
whereas recent ones do.
- Frank