MS-II and charon

[fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)]

Every once in a while, charon starts running out of file structs, and
stuff like socket() calls fail.  This makes it hard to connect to
MetaServerII.  Usually it acts like it's connecting, but then drops you
right away.

Stuff like this:

2c614700: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614700: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614701: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614702: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614703: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614704: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614704: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614704: user accept failed, err = 23
2c614704: user accept failed, err = 23
[another 60 more]

isn't going to help you connect any faster.  (The number on the left is
the time in seconds; that's 6 connection attemps per second.)

If you have an automated MS-II client, please don't program in an infinite
auto-reconnect without a delay... it's not going to help.

-- 
fadden@uts.amdahl.com (Andy McFadden)
[ Above opinions are mine, Amdahl has nothing to do with them, etc, etc. ]