[Computer-go] error message in beta tournament

[Nick Wedd]

In message <016501cbb8f1$b31e5610$195b0230$@com>, David Fotland 
<fotland at smart-games.com> writes
>The exact error was:
>
>SEVERE: Unexpected disconnect: Error "No buffer space available (maximum
>connections reached?): connect" while connecting to machine
>"secret-machine-name".
>FINE: Will wait 5 minutes, then try to connect again
>
>Eventually it worked, after about 10 retries, and stayed connected all
>night, then found a tournament game at 7:43 AM and played against stonegrid.
>
>Then FINE: game is over and scored
>
>Then at 2:09 PM
>SEVERE: Unexpected disconnect.  The connection to the server has been closed
>unexpectedly. You must log in again.

Many thanks.  I have passed this on to wms.

Nick
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: computer-go-bounces at dvandva.org [mailto:computer-go-
>> bounces at dvandva.org] On Behalf Of Nick Wedd
>> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:49 AM
>> To: computer-go at dvandva.org
>> Subject: Re: [Computer-go] semeai example of winning rate
>>
>> Dear David,
>>
>> About the earlier incident, I have a response from wms, who is trying to
>> get the bugs in the beta fixed:
>>
>> maproomad wrote:
>>
>> <start of quote>
>>
>> Possible bug:
>>
>> Yesterday, David Fotland left a version of his Many Faces of Go running
>> on the beta server, using its 'ManyFaces1' account. It played in a test
>> mini-tournament, nothing went wrong. It remeined connected, intending to
>> play in today's test tournament. But later I had an email from him
>>
>> "I got a maximum connections reached error (no buffer space). The
>> script will retry every five minutes, but manyfaces1 might not show up."
>>
>> ManyFaces1 is still (again?) connected.
>>
>> <end of quote>
>>
>> H'm, I'd like to see the exact error message. I did reboot my computer
>> last night which made everybody drop their connection, but I noticed
>> that the computer players all bounced right back. Maybe that is what he
>> saw?
>>
>>
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