Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau AT zmanda DOT com> wrote to me yesterday:

>> Could you try to increase ACK_TRIES in common-src/protocol.c ?

The relevant code segment is:

#define ACK_WAIT 10 /* time (secs) to wait for ACK - keep short */
#define ACK_TRIES 3 /* num retries after ACK_WAIT timeout */

I screwed this up and increased ACK_WAIT instead.  I increased
ACK_WAIT to 100 and ambiance got backed up last night without any
problems, go figure.  

Paul Bijnens <paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com> wrote:

> Have a look in the amdump.X file and get some more context around
> that client and in particular the error message above.

It said:

amandad: time 3699.611: timeout
amandad: time 3699.612: timeout waiting for ACK for our REP

So anyway, Mr. Martineau is correct and these values need to be
tweaked.  My machines are quite typical and not that heavily used.

Steve
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