| Title: | Terminal Servers | 
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| Moderator: | LAVC::CAHILL ON | 
| Created: | Tue May 14 1991 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 3547 | 
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    I have a customer who has Decserver 200 terminal servers which are
    hanging intermittently. Running version 3.3. One thing that has been
    noticed is that all of the servers that are experiencing the problem
    are clocking up Discarded Node Errors all of the time.  Is it possible
    that it reaches a critical limit and hangs the terminal server??
    
    What does this error mean?  Any ideas for a fix?
    
    Thanks, Keith.
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| 3523.1 | check this | CSC32::D_SHAVEY | Wed May 07 1997 12:16 | 42 | |
|     Discarded nodes:
    
    Number of nodes that could not be entered into the decserver's
    database.
    
    note:
    
    local>show server status
    
    TSM_SVR_DS2MC2> sh server status
    
    DECserver 200 V3.3 BL39     LAT V5.1   ROM BL20    Uptime:  37 01:53:48
    
    Address:   08-00-2B-09-2A-1C   Name:   NSUV05             Number:     0
    
                         Cur  High  Max
    
    Active Ports:          0     0    8     Minutes To Shutdown:        N/A
    Active Users:          0     0    8     Discarded Nodes:              0
    Queue Entries:         0     0   24     Resource Errors:              0
    
    Available Services:   45    48  N/A     Port Framing Errors:          0
    Local Services:        7     7   10     Port Parity Errors:           0
    Reachable Nodes:      19    21  100     Port Overrun Errors:          0
    
    Active Circuits:       0     0   16     Primary Hosts:             GORE
    Connected Nodes:       0     0   16     Load Address: 08-00-2B-A3-64-4F
    Connected Sessions:    0     0   32     Dump Address:    None Available
    % CPU Used:           12    39  100     Console User: 08-00-2B-A2-84-14
    % Memory Used:        13    13  100
    
    
    
    check to see what the node limit is set to under the reachable nodes
    for current, high and max. If the decserver node limit is not reached,
    it discards that info and increments the discarded nodes counter and
    the resource errors if it is having problems with finding memory to
    store the information.
    
    Darrell Shavey
    CSC32::D_SHAVEY
    DTN 592-4712
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| 3523.2 | SBPTMA::ABBOTT_K | Fri May 09 1997 10:26 | 7 | ||
|     Darrell,
    
    Thanks, We have now increased the node limit and the discarded node
    error counter has stopped increasing.  Hopefully it might also stop the
    server hanging, we wait to see.....
    
    Cheers, Keith.
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