I just found what seems to be a cure to my download stall problem. I right-clicked on my filerunner titlebar (maximize) by sheer accident and I noted that the lights on the modem started blinking faster. So I left it alone for a bit, and my downloads don't even begin to stall.
Another symptom is that when I invoke an xterm, but don't pin it down (so only the outline shows), the modem lights completely stop. I forgot to mention that I've had the same occurance with ncftp, which is console based. These finding seems to point to either the X-server, or else the window manager (afterstep). In either case, I think I can deal with it by dragging the maximized filerunner into a corner out of the way. While I had previously noticed that minimizing soon resulted in a stall, I never thought of maximizing (I run 1280x1024, so that's unwieldy). Usually I don't solve problems by accident, but that's OK. :-) David On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 22:54:48 GMT, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > I'm doing some downloading with filerunner right now, have ran renice > -20 on asmodem and tkwish(filerunner), but still notice 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. > > 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. > > 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 hope I haven't wasted your time. > > David > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
