[ic] Should I buy another CPU?

Ron Phipps interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Mon Mar 18 20:43:00 2002


> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
[mailto:interchange-
> users-admin@interchange.redhat.com] On Behalf Of John Beima
> 
<-- SNIP -->
> One last thing you need to look at is drive speed and choices.... If
you
> are
> experencing on and off failures in pgp encryption and/or payment
gateways.
> This
> is more likely than not, your drives are too slow. These
programs/modules
> need
> to make tmp files, they also need RAM, and if they can't get both fast
> enough,
> they fail. You will see this problem a lot on the list, if people
actually
> READ
> past messsages, they would see it and STOP posting it again and again.

This is obviously directed at me and others who experienced this
problem.  Mike Heins and Orko from the list spent a considerable amount
of time working with me on this issue and we found that it was not due
to RAM or HD speed.  I posted before on this issue that we run U2W SCSI
drives and have more then enough free ram for the one site that is being
served.

The problem being experienced is due to a bug in Perl's signal handling
and can be fixed by using the applying the fix that Mike came up with
(RPC mode, MaxServers 0).  If we would have stopped posting this problem
to the list the first time it would have never been fixed.  I'm not sure
why you are upset that this problem was posted to the list, but due to
Mike wanting to get to the bottom of this and more then one person
experiencing the problem a fix was found... and it was not to simply
throw more hardware at the problem.

-Ron