[hobbit] Oversize data/client msg

Charles Jones jonescr at cisco.com
Mon Jan 7 17:09:00 CET 2008


Hobbit rehashes most config files automatically, with the exception of 
hobbitserver.cfg When you change hobbitserver.cfg, you must restart 
Hobbit for it to take effect.

Joshua Krause wrote:
>
> I understand what you are saying but after making the change in the 
> hobbitserver.cfg file I am still getting this message on hobbit:
>
>  
>
> Latest errormessages:
>
> Oversize data/client msg from 172.31.128.50 truncated (n=579454, limit 
> 524288)
>
> First line: gsonc-spg-omea-1|sunos|sunos
>
>  
>
>  
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>  
>
> *From:* Gary Baluha [mailto:gumby3203 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 07, 2008 10:56 AM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Oversize data/client msg
>
>  
>
> On Jan 7, 2008 10:31 AM, Joshua Krause <forums at triadbiz.rr.com 
> <mailto:forums at triadbiz.rr.com>> wrote:
>
>     In the server man pages it said that the MSGMAX_DATA defaulted to
>     256kb so I
>     raised it to 512kb.  So your saying that I need to raise it to
>     768kb?  The
>
>     only reason I say this is because in the error message it says:
>
>
> I mentioned to raise it to 768kb only because the other MAX* variables 
> were set to that.  In reality, you only need to raise it to whatever 
> the largest "data/client msg" size is.  In this case, that would be 
> 579186.
>  
>
>     Latest errormessages:
>
>     Oversize data/client msg from 172.31.128.50 <http://172.31.128.50>
>     truncated (n=579186, limit
>     524288)
>
>     First line: gsonc-spg-omea-1|sunos|sunos
>
>     Which says the limit is "524588" and if the MSGMAX_DATA is set to
>     256 by
>     default then I would think that this value is dealing with the
>     MSGMAX_CLIENT
>     which is defaulted to 512 and I raised it to 768.
>
>
> MSGMAX_CLIENT is larger than _DATA because the former generally 
> contains more data. Other than that, there is no need for the three 
> MAX* settings to have any specific relationship between each other's 
> values.
>
>  
>

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