I have two RSTS 10.1L nodes on HECnet and they see netmapper activity regularly. I’ve not had any issues with job slots running out.

Did DECnet patching take place? Otherwise, it doesn’t seem to be netmapper causing this.

Keith

From: Wilm Boerhout [mailto:wboerhout@gmail.com]
Sent: 13 September 2022 09:06
To: hecnet@lists.dfupdate.se
Subject: [HECnet] RSTS DECnet config question

Hail all you RSTS buffs!

One of my nodes (PIRSTS) is running RSTS V10.1L and DECnet V4.1

Ever since I am on HECnet, I have observed that job slots are filled over time with jobs under the DECnet account [29,206] in HB state, up to the point that the job max is reached, and I cannot log in anymore.

My working hypothesis is that the polling processes (for HECnet mapping and other inquiring minds – you know who you are) keep creating new jobs, instead of reusing old ones.

Is there a way to tell DECnet/E that it should not keep jobs in HB state, but log them out after use? Or reuse existing jobs on incoming connection requests? On DECnet/VMS there are timer and other logicals that steer this behavior.

Running a daily kill job seems, well, overkill.

Thanks,

Wilm