Multiple uucico's

[Pete Ware]

We are running Sun 4.2bsd release 3.1 and uucp based on the rti uucp
from the 4.2bsd tape as modified by Rick Adams. When I logged on this
morning there were many (as in more than 20) uucico's going (not since
I was a student have I seen the load average above 50, until now).
Why? How?

I fire off a "uucico -r1" from cron every half-hour to clean out the
spool area. There are only two ports and we talk to 3 machines.
Neither of the ports are hung. Things are back to normal. The
spooling area is reasonably clean. The logfile shows many "LOCKED
(system name)" messages all within several minutes of each other for
each of the systems we talk to. There was some traffic going on at
that point. Any ideas?

Thanks,
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