[AG-TECH] AG bridge woes

[Gurcharan S. Khanna]

all,

i have to agree with jeremy's point, that to the outside world and the 
'powers that be',
that this kind of behavior makes AG look unstable, unreliable, and 
dubious to invest in.
it's certainly something that ought to rise in priority to 'fix' as 
otherwise it will remain an
obstacle to wider acceptance and even funding.

on a related note, i continue to experience venue clients needing to be 
restarted or venues
re-entered every day or so. i leave my nodes up and in the venue 24/7 in 
public places but
that means as likely as not, the public sees error messages instead of 
nice video. i too have
started to re-started the whole machine to make sure it's up and 
running, but this is surely
a workaround to a more basic problem that the system is not robust or 
reliable. it's especially
difficult since i have 6-7 nodes on campus and am trying to deploy more.

anything we can do to address and fix this would surely help AG survive 
and thrive.

-gurcharan

Jason Bell wrote:
> G'day Jeremy
>
> I honestly cannot explain why I need to do "regular" restarts, I just
> find that if I do, the bridge is more stable and more reliable.
>
> For us, it is better that every time a person wants to connect to the
> bridge, that the bridge is up and running.
>
> Sorry I cannot be anymore helpful!
>
> Thanks,
> Jason.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Mann [mailto:jeremymann at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, 3 November 2008 09:48 AM
> To: Jason Bell
> Cc: ag-tech at mcs.anl.gov
> Subject: Re: [AG-TECH] AG bridge woes
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Jason Bell <j.bell at cqu.edu.au> wrote:
>   
>> G'day Jeremy
>>
>> For my personal AG bridge, I have a "cron" job that restarts the
>>     
> bridge
>   
>> every night.
>>
>> I am also in the process of assisting to setup a number of bridges
>> around Australia and I am experimenting restarting the bridges just
>>     
> once
>   
>> a week.
>>     
>
> Thanks Jason, but is that really acceptable? While I don't have a
> problem with restarting the bridge, but boss deems this unacceptable
> and will probably drop our bridge service. If you can give me some
> points I can show him, like why it's necessary to restart each day,
> why it drops connections to the peer registry, etc... I would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
>
>   


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