[ic] interchange crashing?

John Beima interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Sat Nov 3 12:19:00 2001


G'Day Mike,


As you are well aware, you are more than welcome to take a look at our server,
and can have access to anything you need... Just get ahold of me and I will let
you at it...


John Beima


Quoting Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com>:

> Quoting John Beima (jbeima@palb.com):
> > We have had a fair number of unique crashes as well, as of late...
> > 
> > They all occur with the new "rpc" mode... It is kinda very funny... We
> have 200
> > sites on one machine, only one of which is based on the foundation
> template...
> > It is the ONLY catalog that crashes... All of our custom made ones run
> fine...
> > 
> > We have another server with 18 custom made catalogs and 1 continues to
> freeze...
> > 
> > The interesting thing is is you alter the "rpc" settings to allow each
> server to
> > process no more than 40 requests instead of 100 the crashes seem to
> totally
> > dissappear... They have gone from 6 or 7 locks a day to 4 days with no
> > crashes... My buess is there is a memory leak in "rpc" mode... The
> change we
> > made was to start up 10 servers instead of 5 because of the drops in
> requests
> > allowed to each server...
> > 
> > Hope this helps someone out...
> 
> I think what is happening is that DBI is caching the MySQL handles
> and at some point they stop working.
> 
> If anyone has seen this problem with DBM-only or Postgres sites (neither
> of which cache connections) then I would appreciate hearing about it.
> I would really like to nail this problem.
> 
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