Hi, I'm doing some downloading with filerunner right now, have ran renice -20 on asmodem and tkwish(filerunner), but still find that my download will stall, as indicated by my asmodem display and filerunner transfer status display, under certain conditions, particularly following a http or ftp request by another web or ftp client, but also when simply starting another application or even opening an xterm, and sometimes during a lengthy download it will occur after a period of user inactivity, usually the modem display will slow to a crawl before the download stalls. I download from everywhere imaginable, at all hours, and load levels, and this is constant. For overnight downloads, I have to set the ftp timeout to 15 minutes to stay alive (it has died at up to 12 minutes). I am not experiencing a quota limitation, and I have ample cpu and memory resources; 64MB, P133, latest, most stable releases of everything.
I've also found that several actions will cause download to continue, mostly having to do with the changing focus and the mouse location; i.e.: changing the focus on and off of filerunner will usually cause download to continue. Typing in a text editor will keep the modem blinking faster and longer, but won't restart a stalled download (mouse motion not as good). I'm using "click-to-focus", which is the preferred default for afterstep, yet the behavior I experience seems to be a hybrid of primarily "click-to-focus" with a little "focus-follows-mouse" mixed in. This is evidenced quite clearly when in netscape, with filerunner downloading, netscape will fail to load a webpage if the focus is on a non-netscape frame and I move the mouse out of the netscape frame; subsequently download will continue if the mouse is allowed to drift into the netscape frame (still without focus in the netscape frame). There are so many potential causes of this behavior, ranging from the individual apps to my X-server and windowmanager, all of which have their own peculiar "features" (heh, heh). I haven't tried mc in console mode yet, but that shouldn't be necessary. Does this make sense to anyone? I keep hoping it'll get fixed in the next releases, but that never happens. David -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
