Re: non-blocking connect

[Jochem Kossen <jkossen@xs4all.nl>]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 04:51:34AM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> I see in that message two versions of a certain file, one good, one
> corrupted.  (I forwarded the message here.)  How often does this
> corruption occur?  Is it always at the same place, always identical?

It seems to corrupt the files around 3 of 10 times. It's not always at
the same place, and also not identical. So to sum up, everything is
pretty much random.

Now, i've set tramp-chunksize to 500 and 1024, and i can't seem to get
the corruption anymore :-S I'm now gradually trying higher values
(2048 atm). But i'm just trying this for about an hour, so don't
consider it a conclusion.

> If not, what varies?

The place of corruption in the file, and the 'characters'/binary data
it inserts.

So, the things i suspect might have something to do with it:
 - chunksize (what does the default do in comparison with values like
   500/1024/2048)? I read the documentation, but it doesn't mention
   what tramp does if it's set to nil.
 - traffic goes through an OpenBSD 3.6 firewall with scrubbing
   (traffic normalization) on

BTW, the remote/target host is running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE

Regards,

Jochem