[ic] interchange crashing?

Stefan Hornburg Racke interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Oct 31 02:46:01 2001


interch <interch@nawabenterprises.com> writes:

> weve been experiencing a couple strange things with our installation of 
> interchange.  It seems to be working well most of the time (its been up 
> for the most part for a month now getting 6-8k hits).  But just this 
> evening i noticed that one of the interchange processes was using 80-90% 
> of the cpu.. and 86 MB memory.  Looking at the interchange error.log i 
> found a bunch of lines like this (hundreds):
> 
> 205.232.129.9 - - [29/October/2001:10:23:16 -0600] auto /cgi-
> bin/auto/brands/menu/carcareaccessories.html Died in server spawn: Can't 
> call method "new" on an undefined value at /usr/local/interchange/lib/Vend/
> Data.pm line 674.
> 216.97.217.186 - - [29/October/2001:10:23:38 -0600] auto /cgi-
> bin/auto/index.html Died in server spawn: Can't call method "new" on an 
> undefined value at /usr/local/interchange/lib/Vend/Data.pm line 674.

This can be a catalog error or a known, but rather mysterious bug in
Interchange with PreFork enabled.

Ciao
        Racke

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