Re: [hobbit] "hobbitd status-board not available" from bbgen on solaris 10

[henrik (at) hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner)]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:30:23PM +0100, Colin Spargo wrote:
> TCP fusion is only used on local loopback connections to speed them up by 
> bypassing the normal TCP stack. I found that the problem only occured when 
> connecting to hobbitd locally. I tried running "bb localhost hobbitdboard" 
> once a second, and found it would often return no data, but if I ran the 
> same command from another host to the hobbit server, it always returned 
> correct data. This made me suspect TCP fusion, as I have run into issues 
> with it before. It it is best left disabled in my opinion.

Very interesting, thanks. There have been some reports about problems on 
Solaris 10, and at one point I was suspecting an OS bug. Seems I was
right.


Henrik