[Xastir-dev] Re: Another case of high load

[Curt, WE7U]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Henk de Groot wrote:

> So it all IP network traffic. When I deny access to the network in
> ZoneAlarm I see that Xastir tries to connect to port 1314 over and over;
> this is Festival.

That's not nice, denying access like that...  ;-)

I just added some usleep's in festivalOpen() so that it'll slow that
down a bit, for the case where it can't connect to the festival
server.  It now closes the connection and waits 50ms.


> I recompliled Xastir without Festival support but it doesn't make a
> difference. Obviously Xastir does not try to connect to Festival anymore,
> but now Xastir tries to connect to some another ports for some reason. I've
> seen ports 3517, 3588, 3990, 4419 etc. I have no idea why, when I deny
> access in the Firewall Xastir does keep running so it doesn't seem to be
> needed in order to function.

It might be that you're confusing the local end of a network
connection.  Xastir will connect to a remote port, and have a local
port number that is 1024 or higher for that same connection.  Do a
"netstat -tcp" and you should see what's going on.  "netstat -tp" if
you want a single snapshot of it.

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