[tpop3d-discuss] tpop3d[2209]: net_loop: timed out client

Chris Lightfoot chris at ex-parrot.com
Wed, 10 Dec 2003 22:49:51 +0000


On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:45:32PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

> Anyway take a look at my first log sent to mailing list
> 
> Dec 10 17:11:12 gucio tpop3d[2209]: do_retr: client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253): sending message 39 (2205377 bytes)
> 
> so ~2MB
> 
> Dec 10 17:11:12 gucio tpop3d[2209]: do_retr: client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253): sent message 39
> 
> tpop3d finished sending message to client

Did it? The next message suggests that it didn't:

> Dec 10 17:18:00 gucio tpop3d[2209]: connection_sendresponse: client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253): sent `-ERR You can hang around all day if you 
> like. I have better things to do.'
> Dec 10 17:18:00 gucio tpop3d[2209]: net_loop: timed out client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253)

To me it looks like the client started reading the message
at 17:11:12, and was timed out at 17:18:00.

> Dec 10 17:18:01 gucio tpop3d[2209]: connections_post_select: client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253): finished session for `abakus ' with mysql
> 
> Dec 10 17:18:01 gucio tpop3d[2209]: connections_post_select: client 
> [7]abakus(195.116.149.253): disconnected; 64/719042 byte s read/written
> 
> but only 719042 bytes written? Message was ~2MB and tpop3d wrote ,,sent 
> message''! Looks like some tpop3d bug.

-- that's consistent with a client timeout during message
transmission.

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