On 19 Dec 00, at 15:03, Dobromil D. Belik <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>
> I am running listserv service on the DEC 2100 Alpha server with VMS OS.
> It took me long time to figure this one out.  (However, this is probably
> not your problem.)  Anyway, when I issued a command $ SHOW NETWORK, our
> hub have had 30 links.  So I rebooted the server, and the problem did
> disappear.
>
> Well, can someone help me with my problem??? (To clear the links to 0
> without rebooting the system???)

I'm not sure what you mean about your "hub have had 30 links". Can
you be more specific about what you get from SHOW NETWORK and why
it's a problem? Also, what network software are you using?

FWIW, we run what is probably one of the busiest LISTSERV
installations in the world on OpenVMS without any problem. We use UCX
here, and SHOW NETWORK/FULL shows hundreds of connections (we are
running LSMTP in addition to LISTSERV) without any problem, so I'm
unclear why 30 connections would cause a problem for LISTSERV, and
why you would want to clear that to 0.

What are you running on? How much memory does it have? What else are
you running on the same machine?

What are the specific errors that you are seeing in the LISTSERV log?
If you stop and restart LISTSERV (without rebooting the machine) does
the problem go away?

FWIW, unlike Windows, it's extremely rare that rebooting the system
is the right solution on an OpenVMS system -- VMS is meant to stay up
and it is designed to stay up for years without rebooting. If
rebooting fixed it, it probably stopped some other process that was
causing problems, and that's what you need to figure out.

Francoise