Obnoxious load-dependant bug in UUCP

Fri Mar 8 19:47:48 AEST 1991

In article <1991Mar5.102756.3379 at panix.uucp> alexis at panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen) writes:
>I've been using UUCP very heavily on this A/UX Mac IIx now for several months.

I am using UUCP rather heavily on a i486 box running SCO UNIX 3.2.0

>see log entries like this:
>cmcl2!notes (3/4-19:24:45) (C,15402,21) IN SEND/SLAVE MODE (INPUT FAILURE)
>cmcl2!notes (3/4-19:24:45) (C,15402,21) FAILED (conversation complete)

This happens daily to me

>I don't think I've ever seen this behavior during the night, when few users
>are on.

  Correct!

>A rarer, but far more obnoxious bug, which I get once or twice a month, looks
>like this in the log file:
>cmcl2!jsb (3/4-19:28:07) (C,15598,0) REQUEST (S D.cmcl2BC3330 D.cmcl2BC3330 jsb)
>cmcl2!jsb (3/4-19:31:32) (C,15598,1) BAD READ (expected 'C' got FAIL)
>cmcl2!jsb (3/4-19:31:32) (C,15598,1) FAILED (conversation complete)

If you look at the output of `uucico -x9`, You see ten alarm calls, and then comes the failure. Any suggestions ?

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