Re: [Fwd: Bug in 'mixminion flush']

["Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>]

ok    upgraded and seems to be running ok, but time will tell.

I'm a bit busy this weekend with work, we're moving 200 computers and a
full computer/server room from one building to another so I may not be
too responsive.

I'll try to check tomorrow morning before I leave.   now to bed for
3 or 4 hours sleep

. . . .  z z z z z z

btw   18000 messages queued up on my side may take a while to clean out.

--On Friday, December 19, 2003 4:41 PM -0500 Nick Mathewson <nickm@freehaven.net> wrote:

> BTW, I'd like to figure out what's up with the bad performance results
> on the outel pinger.  Could you please apply this patch so we can try to
> figure out what's going on?  Please let me know if you run into any
> issues while doing so...
>
> -----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@freehaven.net>
> To: mixminion-dev@freehaven.net
> Subject: Bug in 'mixminion flush'
> Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 12:16:40 -0500
>
> All released versions of Mixminion 0.0.6 suffer from this bug: when you
> run 'mixminion flush', even when packets are delivered successfully,
> they are never actually removed from the queue.
>
> This should effect people running pingers especially, and may partially
> account for poor recent ping results.
>
> There is a fix in the current CVS version.  If you're running a pinger,
> I recommend that you try upgrading from the _stable_ CVS branch. (There
> are instructions on the mixminion.net webpage; the branch's name is
> "mixminion-v0-0-6-patches".)
>
> An actual release with this bug fix will follow in a few days; I want to
> make sure that there aren't any equally stupid bugs lying in wait.
>
> My apologies for the inconvenience,