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Fixed in CVS. new option: clientautoflush

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OK, thanks for the workaround. I'll give it a try. Beta 40 works
fine for me too, so I can always just stick there.

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setting SENDPOOLTIME to 1h or similar will make 2.9.0 behave
similar enough to what you want.

I need to think and talk to Len and Ulf about how to fix this.

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Yes, with SENDPOOLTIME 0h in beta 40, the bad behavior
shows up.

I'll remove SENDPOOLTIME 0h and just sit with beta 40 for a
while while you look into it further.

Thanks for your time and patience.

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weasel@valiant:~/Mix-cvs$ for i in `seq 1 20`; do /bin/ls -1
pool/m* | wc -l; ./mix -dS >/dev/null 2>&1; done
100
82
68
57
48
41
35
30
26
23
20
18
17
16


Ha!

If remail is NO, we always do a pool run.
if you run mix -M and sendpooltime is low enogh (i.e. 0)
it's done twice.

[removed the works-for-me]

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I meant "does the problem still not show in b40"

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please set SENDPOOLTIME to 0h:

SENDPOOLTIME 0h

is the problem still reproduceable with beta40 now?

[one of the changes between them was to set the default to 0]
[anyway, I got an idea - will post later]

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I've determined that 2.9.0, rc1, and beta-41 also have this
problem. Beta-40 is OK, so maybe that will offer a clue.

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Some additional info on this.

Use the ncurses interface to generate 100 dummy messages by
hammering the 'd' key.

Then begin pressing the 's' key.

The number of messages in the pool decreases properly (~10%
with RATE 10) with each press of the 's' key.

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(Hope this doesn't get posted twice)

Mixmaster 2.9.0

mix.cfg file:

SMTPRELAY localhost
REMAIL n
HELONAME lamer.com
CHAIN *,*,*,*
NUMCOPIES 1
DISTANCE 2
MINREL 98
RELFINAL 99
MAXLAT 2h
RATE 10
MAILtoNEWS mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu
ERRLOG /var/log/mixlog

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Mixmaster Version 2.9.0

----------Contents of mix.cfg----------
SMTPRELAY localhost
REMAIL n
HELONAME lamer.com
CHAIN *,*,*,*
NUMCOPIES 1
DISTANCE 2
MINREL 98
RELFINAL 99
MAXLAT 2h
RATE 10
MAILtoNEWS mail2news@anon.lcs.mit.edu
ERRLOG /var/log/mixlog

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are there any other options in your mix.cfg file? If yes,
can you please paste the entire file in here? And which
version to you run exactly? 2.9.0 or an earlier beta?

TIA

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Well, here is the result on the same experiment here on Red Hat
Linux 7.3. In mix.cfg I have RATE 10 Once it gets to 18 it
behaves properly.

[mixer@monoscope Mix]$ for i in `seq 1 20`; do /bin/ls -1
pool/m* | wc -l; ./mix -dS >/dev/null 2>&1; done
100
82
68
57
48
41
35
30
26
23
20
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10

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I cannot reproduce this.
weasel@valiant:~/Mix-cvs$ for i in `seq 1 20`; do /bin/ls -1
pool/m* | wc -l; ./mix -dS >/dev/null 2>&1; done
100
91
83
76
70
64
59
54
50
46
43
40
37
35
33
31
29
27
26
25