fetch hangs, part 2

[Matt White]

Conrad:

Thanks, but it looks like those are the default settings, so I'm guessing 
setting that's not going to help me.  It's probably better to figure out 
what's wrong here anyway so we can use whatever settings we want.  If I 
don't hear anything more, I'll try to get a ktrace tonight.


-Matt

--On Sunday, July 18, 2004 1:48 PM -0500 "Conrad J. Sabatier" 
<conrads at cox.net> wrote:

>
> On 18-Jul-2004 Matt White wrote:
>> I looked in the archives and saw that a couple of others also had
>> this
>> problem.  Fetch is getting distributions for ports and it'll just
>> hang.
>> Killing the build and restarting it will usually cause it to advance.
>> Did
>> any of you guys who saw this problem before come up with a solution?
>
> I found that changing my buffer size settings made all the difference.
> I had been using the following in /etc/sysctl.conf:
>
> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=131072
> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536
>
> Changing them to:
>
> net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
> net.inet.tcp.sendspace=32768
>
> Solved the problem.
>
> --
> Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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