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My machine is on a Public School system network, behind a firewall. I |
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wonder whether this is affecting the merging process. I'm not |
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knowledgeable enough about networking to understand how the firewall |
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works, what it affects. |
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When emerging a package, often the process starts, runs for a short |
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while, then stalls out. If I restart it (kill it and rerun the same |
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command) the same thing goes on---I get maybe another 10, 20, or even |
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50MB, then the process stalls again. Sometimes, afterhours, when |
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everyone is gone, I can restart a stalled process, and it starts and |
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finishes immediately, even if it a 10+MB file that is involved. |
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Can someone suggest to me what this suggests, in terms of firewall |
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activity? I have heard remarks about the quality of the firewall. |
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Could it be a router? I saw some mention of routers not allowing |
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certain kinds of requests or certain numbers of requests. |
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I don't intend to swamp this system. It's pretty dismal anyway, but I |
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wonder what's happening. Maybe I can point something out to the |
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sysops. |
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Alan Davis |
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