[ic] Rpc traffic mode

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Jeff Dafoe)]

> >     What does that do differently that would mitigate the issue?
>
> I believe this has been the subject of long discussion in numerous
> threads about 6 months ago.

    I reviewed the message that Ron posted and remembered reading that
thread previously.

> Basically, Perl's signal handling is flawed and there is probably
> not much we can do about it. Setting MaxServers to zero means that
> USR1 and USR2 will not be used to notify the master server of child
> activity. In RPC mode, that is not needed unless you are on a very
> tight memory schedule.

    I knew about the perl signalling issues but didn't realize that
MaxServers set to zero would stop signalling in IC.

Thanks,
Jeff