[ic] Perl 5.8.0 + Interchange Clustering locking issues

[Dan Browning]

At 09:36 PM 9/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>At 10:28 PM 7/27/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>>Dan Browning wrote:
>>>>For fun, I was testing Perl 5.8.0 (default build options) on our 
>>>>Interchange cluster and found some file locking problems.  We'll be 
>>>>sticking with 5.6.1 for now, but I wanted to warn those who run 
>>>>clusters just in case they try it:
>>>>x.x.x.x - - [27/July/2002:12:10:03 -0700] www11 
>>>>/cgi-bin/template/index.html Runtime error: Could not lock file:
>>>>Interrupted system call
>>>>It occurs even under very light loads, with MySQL sessions, and 
>>>>everything else shared over NFS3 (fcntl locks).  Perhaps it will be 
>>>>fixed in Perl 5.8.1...
>>>
>>>It this happens with TRAFFIC = low or high? Did you get such message 
>>>with TRAFFIC = rpc too?
>>
>>Yes, I did get the error with high & rpc (even with MaxServers 0).
>
>Our site went live this weekend we're not running in a cluster but we are 
>seeing these errors too..
>We're running 4.8.6 on RH 7.1 with Perl 5.8.0 and traffic is set at high 
>where as at low, no errors were reported...

Hopefully the issue can be resolved, but until then I would recommend that 
you go back to 5.6.1.

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