webbot: hangs in HTEventList

The webbot example program hangs after a brief period of normal
operation; typically after 50-100 "outstanding requests" have piled
up.  This happens on sun and digital; compiled with gcc on the sun and
cc on the digital:

	- SunOS 5.5.1 Generic_103640-20 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2      
	- OSF1 V4.0 878 alpha

This behaviour occurs with any starting URI however the number of
"outstanding requests" which accumulate differs depending on the site.

I *must* be doing something wrong.  Can someone kindly point me in the
right direction?

Some clues:
-----------

Robot....... done with http://www.seas.upenn.edu/history.html
             54 outstanding requests
>>>...program hangs...<<<
^C
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0xef63790c in _poll ()
(gdb) where
#0  0xef63790c in _poll ()
#1  0xef653d48 in select ()
#2  0x37ba8 in HTEventList_loop (theRequest=0x83e58) at HTEvtLst.c:817
#3  0x201c0 in main (argc=8, argv=0xeffff8c4) at HTRobot.c:1784
(gdb)
       

Mike
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Mike Berry, ISC Network Services
Information Systems and Computing, University of Pennsylvania
Voice:(215)/898-1264   Fax:(215)/898-9348     E-mail:<berrym@isc.upenn.edu>

Received on Tuesday, 4 August 1998 14:53:30 UTC