Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLSERVER Digest - 18 Oct 2001 to 19 Oct 2001 (#2001-263)

2001-10-20 Thread Janine Sisk
We see this error all the time. Don and I tracked it down once, and attributed it to two things: 1. Users getting bored and surfing away during an up/download, or hitting Stop for some reason. 2. IE making two requests for a download (and possibly upload, I don't think we checked that but it

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLSERVER Digest - 26 Sep 2001 to 27 Sep 2001 (#2001-244)

2001-09-28 Thread Janine Sisk
For mysterious crashes with no explanation, it's probably due to data corrupted by blown stacks. Kris, Would this also apply to situations where nsd is still running, but stops responding? No zombies or anything, everything appears as normal except that all threads are frozen; nothing being

Re: [AOLSERVER] 3.4 memory usage

2001-10-17 Thread Janine Sisk
Harry Moreau wrote: Personally, I'm heartened to hear other people see leaks Yea, me too! I have several systems where nsd 3.2+ad12 will slowly consume memory until, if not restarted, it will crash the system. I had been debating whether I should upgrade to 3.4 and see if it would help, but

[AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-09 Thread Janine Sisk
has a 3.x version of the NS/Admin stuff and I'll take a look at it tomorrow, but it needs to be ported to Oracle (and I don't know if that's my only 2.3.3 dependency anyway). Thanks in advance, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
in the meantime will be welcome. I'm starting to think about doing the restart on a 15 minute interval, which is getting to be a bit ridiculous! thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. Maybe setting it will help with AOLserver 2.3.3. -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
under 6.2 usually do _not_ work properly on 7.2. Even with the compat libraries installed. The reason seems to be kernel 2.4. To use some JVMs on 2.4, you have to set LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5. Maybe setting it will help with AOLserver 2.3.3. -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
that all 100 threads are actually in use at once. This one is still happening. So, any other ideas would be welcome! janine On 4/10/02 2:08 PM, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I really think Rob is on to something here. Not only is the number of threads not increasing so fast

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
in the access log for today so far, so it seems unlikely to me that all 100 threads are actually in use at once. This one is still happening. So, any other ideas would be welcome! janine On 4/10/02 2:08 PM, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I really think Rob is on to something here

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-10 Thread Janine Sisk
in the access log for today so far, so it seems unlikely to me that all 100 threads are actually in use at once. This one is still happening. So, any other ideas would be welcome! janine On 4/10/02 2:08 PM, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know, I really think Rob is on to something

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with nsd 2.3.3 on RH 7.2

2002-04-11 Thread Janine Sisk
Just a quick followup - the developer and I did a quick update to 3.3+ad13 and the site is running fine now. janine

[AOLSERVER] malformed bucket chain in Tcl_DeleteHashEntry

2002-04-13 Thread Janine Sisk
Anyone know what that error is? It stopped one of my 3.2+ad12 servers in it's tracks tonight. Is it just one of those flukes of nature, or should I worry? thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] malformed bucket chain in Tcl_DeleteHashEntry

2002-04-13 Thread Janine Sisk
Thanks, Mike. Since I'm not running any custom nsd modules or anything, I guess it's time to think about an upgrade. My life has been full of upgrades lately! :) janine On 4/13/02 7:58 PM, Mike Hoegeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Janine Sisk wrote: Anyone know what that error

[AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
there are more large up- and down-loads than the average site. Has anyone seen this and figured out the cause, and if not can anyone suggest ways of figuring out what's going on ? thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
On 4/23/02 12:19 PM, C. R. Oldham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What version of the Oracle client and server are you on? Good point, CR, that would be useful info wouldn't it! The Oracle version is 8.1.7.3 (the .3 coming from an Oracle patchset). janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
to a very large number otherwise I had this problem. I think there is a bug in the database driver on Linux since I don't have this problem on Solaris. Barry -Original Message- From: Janine Sisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-23 Thread Janine Sisk
the server automatically restarting itself once an hour to keep them cleared out). One nsd thread owns both, plus three more which are still running. janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
. Janine, I assume you've looked in your bdump, cdump, and udump directories for evidence. Is the defunct process a child of nsd? -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
Now we're getting somewhere! I made that change, now let's see if the defunct processes come back. Thanks, Andrew! janine On 4/25/02 3:08 PM, Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:55:55PM -0400, Janine Sisk wrote: Clearly, it appears that I might be using

Re: [AOLSERVER] Oracle connections going defunct

2002-04-25 Thread Janine Sisk
I made, but what the heck... if it works, I'll be happy! :) janine On 4/25/02 3:23 PM, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now we're getting somewhere! I made that change, now let's see if the defunct processes come back. Thanks, Andrew! janine On 4/25/02 3:08 PM, Andrew Piskorski

[AOLSERVER] setting password in nsperm's password file

2002-04-26 Thread Janine Sisk
and not a configuration issue. thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLServer + Postgres...

2002-08-15 Thread Janine Sisk
21647 ?S 0:01 postgres: acs acs [local] idle thanks in advance... -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

[AOLSERVER] Changing the location of the tmp directory

2002-08-29 Thread Janine Sisk
failure (I guess nsd can't follow symbolic links). I searched the config file reference for tmp and temp, but didn't find anything. Is there a configuration option for this? thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Whither the tcl API documentation?

2002-09-20 Thread Janine Sisk
internationalization. Have you guys incorporated any of those patches, or addressed the issues on your own? thanks, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Responding to SourceForge-generated mail

2002-10-22 Thread Janine Sisk
listserv for most discussion, and use the SF listserv for just tracker announcements. -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] malloc replacement libraries?

2002-11-06 Thread Janine Sisk
pages. It's still running, hasn't crashed, no errors or anything suspicious in the error log. I've already bumped up the stack sizes. I haven't a clue what's going on in there, but it can't be good! janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] 3.3.1+ad13 changes (Was: malloc replacement libraries?)

2002-11-07 Thread Janine Sisk
where he talked about it. If he doesn't see this and chime in, I'll ask him about it. janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Other languages (was: Project Update)

2002-11-08 Thread Janine Sisk
with their service or have lost money on their stock, and the name AOL is actually a turnoff to those folks (sorry). janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] Other languages (was: Project Update)

2002-11-08 Thread Janine Sisk
and it requires AOLserver. So we can't offer them any other choices. If I can get AOLserver adopted throughout the organization here, it'll make for a great case study. Excellent - go for it! :) janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] URL case insensitivity.

2002-11-08 Thread Janine Sisk
worse because they hadn't been consistent; for a particular file, some links to it were in lower case and others were in mixed case. So just changing the file name was not an option. Sorry I can't be of more help, janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603

Re: [AOLSERVER] OpenNSD Re: [AOLSERVER] Responding to SourceForge-generated mail

2002-11-13 Thread Janine Sisk
is the desire to change the name, but somehow I don't expect the AOL folks would be too thrilled with that suggestion. :) janine -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH Phone: 603-672-1122

Re: [AOLSERVER] path to nsd binary from nsd.tcl?

2003-01-05 Thread Janine Sisk
line used to start nsd directly? I would like to do that, in order to set other things in nsd.tcl based on where the nsd binary is. E.g., with /web/aol3/bin/nsd, I want to all logs to go into /web/aol3/log. -- Andrew Piskorski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.piskorski.com -- Janine Sisk President/CEO

Re: [AOLSERVER] Emacs and ADP -- a solution

2003-03-17 Thread Janine Sisk
/listserv.html List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list: http://www.aolserver.com/listserv.html List information and options: http://listserv.aol.com/ -- Janine Sisk President/CEO furfly.net, LLC Mont Vernon, NH

Re: [AOLSERVER] Personal Certificate

2003-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
Unfortunately Safari has it's own quirky issue with SSL. Some people are reporting that you can't get to https URLs if you are behind a proxy server and I have found that to be true at Sloan; I've had to go back to using Mozilla when I'm in the office. I admit I haven't tried very hard to work

[AOLSERVER] Controlling perms on files written to by AOLserver

2004-02-24 Thread Janine Sisk
We have a client who wants to have files written by AOLserver to have perms 664 instead of 644. We've tried various permutations of setting umasks, but nothing seems to help. We're using nsd 3.3 (the Arsdigita version). Files are written to by the application in three different ways: # create a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Controlling perms on files written to by AOLserver

2004-02-24 Thread Janine Sisk
We're using daemontools. I've put the umask command in the run script but it didn't help. janine On Feb 24, 2004, at 4:33 PM, Dossy wrote: On 2004.02.24, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what you guys are telling me is that there's no way to make AOLserver do this automagically

[AOLSERVER] Strange behavior from nsd 3.3

2004-04-13 Thread Janine Sisk
The first time this happened it was a fluke. But after the second time, I suppose I should take it more seriously About a week ago one of the sites I admin started spewing a message like this to the error log: [13/Apr/2004:15:57:47][27456.1][-main-] Fatal: unix: kill(652, 15) failed: 'Not

Re: [AOLSERVER] Strange behavior from nsd 3.3

2004-04-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Apr 13, 2004, at 11:56 PM, Dossy wrote: So, the question: After you started up, could someone have tampered with the pidfile sticking in the pid of some other process in there, hoping that when you went to shut down the server with -K, you'd kill another process other than the nsd? Anything's

Re: [AOLSERVER] Strange behavior from nsd 3.3

2004-04-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Apr 14, 2004, at 2:07 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: If this is the reason, it could be avoided, or at least tracked down more easily by using a new kill script. This script works for both daemontools and inittab. Obviously using daemontools you don't need a pidfile, but this setup allow more flexible

Re: [AOLSERVER] Strange behavior from nsd 3.3

2004-05-06 Thread Janine Sisk
the PID originally assigned to nsd ends up in use by some other process; when that happens then we have trouble. The only problem with this hypothesis is I'm not seeing a lot of shutdown/startup activity in the error logs. Any other thoughts? thanks, janine On Apr 13, 2004, at 3:57 PM, Janine

Re: [AOLSERVER] documentation and the tech writer dilemma

2004-06-27 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 27, 2004, at 10:46 PM, Dossy wrote: Boy, that's an awfully cynical view of the world, but trust me: it's an accurate description of my nearly 15 years of experience in the software biz. YMMV, of course. Sounds entirely accurate to me. The software is always behind schedule but the docs

[AOLSERVER] Stuck on nsopenssl 3.x config

2004-07-12 Thread Janine Sisk
I am trying to get the latest nsopenssl (3.0beta17) to work with AOLserver 4.0.5 and a self-signed certificate (for testing). This is the first time I've used nsopenssl in quite some time, and boy have things changed! I am getting this error and I'm not sure where to go from here:

Re: [AOLSERVER] Stuck on nsopenssl 3.x config

2004-07-12 Thread Janine Sisk
Well, I got further by using these values: ns_param CADir /usr/share/ssl ns_param CAFile/usr/share/ssl/cert.pem (seemed reasonable to try since I used /usr/share/ssl/misc/CA to sign my certificate) And also commented out all of the uses of the admins context,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Stuck on nsopenssl 3.x config

2004-07-12 Thread Janine Sisk
Ok, I got it. The last config snippet I posted was actually correct (or at least, it appears to work). The final problem was that I needed to specify both ports in the command line for running nsd. I couldn't find any docs on this, but I found it in the gmane archives. janine -- AOLserver -

[AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
Hi all, Yesterday I moved a site from version 3.3+ad 13 of aolserver to 4. I had initially installed the nsopenssl beta and it had been working fine, so I left it in. However, about 11 pm last night it started spewing [20/Jul/2004:23:58:45][7246.7176][-conn:live-nybooks::4] Debug: Send(55):

Re: [AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 21, 2004, at 7:21 AM, Janine Sisk wrote: For now, I will switch to a release version of nsopenssl (2). I take that back... version 2 obviously isn't meant to work with AOLserver 4, since I'm getting the same compile error I got from the cybercash module. Ok... any suggestions? I'll see

Re: [AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 21, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Dossy wrote: On 2004.07.21, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... any suggestions? I'll see if I can reproduce the error. If you can reproduce the error, I will definitely make time to look into it. I was able to reproduce it, but only loosely - shortly after

Re: [AOLSERVER] Strange behavior from nsd 3.3

2004-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
been a while I won't trim Dossy's message, to jog everyone's memory. On May 7, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Dossy wrote: On 2004.05.06, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that the PID nsd is attempting to kill *is* the one in the nspid file, but that's about it. Great, you confirmed

Re: [AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-23 Thread Janine Sisk
it is only used for 40-bit browsers, but so far these ancient builds haven't wanted to install on my machine. Jamie On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 10:50:37 -0400, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 21, 2004, at 10:24 AM, Dossy wrote: On 2004.07.21, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... any

Re: [AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-23 Thread Janine Sisk
need to know? janine On Jul 23, 2004, at 10:13 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2004.07.23, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dossy, was Jamie's report helpful? It might be helpful, but I also think describes a problem that's fixed in the more recent nsopenssl3 betas -- Jamie wasn't specific as to which

Re: [AOLSERVER] Possible problem with nsopenssl3 beta

2004-07-23 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 23, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: No, this is a good start. AOLserver 4.0.5 should be okay, but you definitely want to use the most current nsopenssl beta, which is currentl v3_0beta21 in CVS. Doh! I had no idea I wasn't using the latest code. I just automatically went to

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl latest from CVS SSL error on reading data

2004-08-07 Thread Janine Sisk
As it happens, I switched to using nsd 4.0.7 with the latest nsopenssl from CVS about 24 hours ago. I am seeing a similar error: [07/Aug/2004:14:56:39][30511.5126][-conn:live-nybooks::2] Warning: nsopenssl (live-nybooks): SSL interrupted, perhaps by client

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl latest from CVS SSL error on reading data

2004-08-07 Thread Janine Sisk
, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As it happens, I switched to using nsd 4.0.7 with the latest nsopenssl from CVS about 24 hours ago. I am seeing a similar error: [07/Aug/2004:14:56:39][30511.5126][-conn:live-nybooks::2] Warning: nsopenssl (live-nybooks): SSL interrupted, perhaps by client [07

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl latest from CVS SSL error on reading data

2004-08-10 Thread Janine Sisk
That's really interesting... all I can think of is a permissions problem, but then it wouldn't work at all. FWIW, I've had this running since about 1 pm on Friday, so four days now. In that time we've had 8 unexplained crashes, or an average of 2 per day. Although four of them were yesterday so

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl latest from CVS SSL error on reading data

2004-08-10 Thread Janine Sisk
There haven't been any core files, and, well, I've never learned how to use gdb so I wouldn't know what to look at anyway janine On Aug 10, 2004, at 3:52 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:59:31PM -0400, Janine Sisk wrote: FWIW, I've had this running since about 1 pm

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl latest from CVS SSL error on reading data

2004-08-10 Thread Janine Sisk
last night on my powerbook; under a much heavier load I should be able to track down the problem. thanks, /s. On Aug 10, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Janine Sisk wrote: That's really interesting... all I can think of is a permissions problem, but then it wouldn't work at all. FWIW, I've had this running since

[AOLSERVER] Problems with older nsd3.3 site

2004-08-12 Thread Janine Sisk
My recent adventures with AOLserver 4 have come to an end; we've seen several instances of the site hanging with very high CPU consumption and yesterday Dossy and Andrew (Grumet) traced it to the nsopenssl module when it happened at Sloan. So for the time being I've gone back to nsd3.3+ad13 and

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with older nsd3.3 site

2004-08-12 Thread Janine Sisk
On Aug 12, 2004, at 11:26 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2004.08.12, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS Unfortunately I can't upgrade to the new 3.5.11, as ACS sites rely on the Arsdigita patches Do you know specifically what they rely on? I may be mistaken, but the 3.5.x releases were really

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problems with older nsd3.3 site

2004-08-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Aug 12, 2004, at 11:11 AM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: Hm, I dunno. Are the AOLserver thread settings ok? I had maxthreads set to 10, but wasn't setting minthreads or threadtimeout so I set those to 10 and 3500, respectively. We'll see what happens. What do you use for maxconnections? I have it

Re: [AOLSERVER] Support for non-HTTP protocols

2004-08-17 Thread Janine Sisk
On Tuesday 17 August 2004 11:51 am, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Janine has offered to help, but cannot provide access to her production environments where the problem is occurring. Actually I can, but what I can't do is put AOLserver 4 + nsopenssl beta 21 back into production. Right now I am running

Re: [AOLSERVER] Progress report

2004-08-18 Thread Janine Sisk
On Aug 18, 2004, at 9:47 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: What class of hardware are these sites running on? maxthreads=10 is pretty low, IMHO. Running one site on a 1.2 GHz P3 running Linux, I'd comfortably set minthreads=maxthreads=30. BTW, what's the guidelines on setting maxconnections? Should it

Re: [AOLSERVER] 4.0.8

2004-10-19 Thread Janine Sisk
Sorry about the late response... On Oct 13, 2004, at 9:27 AM, Andrew Grumet wrote: Janine and Bruno, are you guys running nsopenssl? Yes, I am. As far as I know it's the latest. I think the trick here is trying to figure out where the memory is going. Jeff D. threw me some introspection code that

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl errors

2004-10-25 Thread Janine Sisk
FWIW, I saw those messages too, when I was using nsopenssl2.1, and I see similar ones using AOLserver 4 and the latest nsopenssl. The only difference is that I've never had a user complaint related to them, so I was assuming that they were victimless crimes. Perhaps that is not the case, though

Re: [AOLSERVER] memory leak in 4.0.9?

2005-01-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 14, 2005, at 3:04 AM, Dan Chak wrote: So, are there any known leaks in 4.0.x? I've been wondering this myself. I've been experimenting with using htdig to search a client site, and I have it digging the staging site once an hour. It only grabs 500 articles, and it's the same ones each

Re: [AOLSERVER] memory leak in 4.0.9?

2005-01-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:38 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Using PostgreSQL? Could there be a memory leak in the nspostgres driver? I'd defer to the OpenACS folks to say whether there are any known memory leaks in any of the OpenACS Tcl code. Nope, using Oracle. I'm not aware of any leaks, and I never

Re: [AOLSERVER] Grr! Stupid mistake when doing previous mem. leak tests.

2005-01-15 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 14, 2005, at 10:16 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: SO, this begs the question: The people who are reporting memory leaks, do you have connsperthread set to anything in your config files? Nope, not me. I will do some comparison testing between 3.3 and 4.0.8, if that will be useful information.

Re: [AOLSERVER] Grr! Stupid mistake when doing previous mem. leak tests.

2005-01-16 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 15, 2005, at 11:22 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: If there's zero memory growth after reaching a stable size in 3.x, but no such stable size is ever reached in 4.0.x, that might be helpful. That'd likely indicate a leak in AOLserver itself that was introduced in 4.0.x. I can't answer that yet,

Re: [AOLSERVER] Grr! Stupid mistake when doing previous mem. leak tests.

2005-01-17 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 16, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: Since Janine is running AOLserver 3.3 (presumably 3.3+ad13 or the like), it is about 99.9% certain that she is running Tcl 8.3.2 with Right. Janine, one obvious thing to try is, for your AOLserver 4.x, upgrade from Tcl 8.4.6 to the latest stable

Re: [AOLSERVER] Grr! Stupid mistake when doing previous mem. leak tests.

2005-01-17 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 16, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Yow! That's frightening. In the code you're running, does it test anywhere for if {[ns_info version] = 4.0} { ... } or something and behave differently on 4.0.x than it did on 3.x? Nope. I know it doesn't; I'm the only programmer and when we

Re: [AOLSERVER] More on memory leak

2005-01-26 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 24, 2005, at 8:55 PM, Nathan Folkman wrote: Below is a quick and dirty page you can use to print out some info from the Zippy memory allocator. Not pretty, but might help you gain some insight into what is going on. Pay close attention to the total stats at the end of the page. By design

Re: [AOLSERVER] More on memory leak

2005-01-31 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 28, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Nathan Folkman wrote: As promised, below is slightly cleaner version (still needs more work) that ties in some of the information from ns_info threads. Hopefully this will help a little. Ok, I've posted this at http://www.furfly.net/janine/memory-pools.html (replaces

Re: [AOLSERVER] More on memory leak

2005-01-31 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jan 31, 2005, at 2:13 PM, Nathan Folkman wrote: At this point it seems like your efforts might be better spent working with Dossy to get one of the profiling tools to work correctly with AOLserver. Well, here's what I tried, using version 2.2 of valgrind: valgrind --tool=memcheck

Re: [AOLSERVER] More on memory leak

2005-02-22 Thread Janine Sisk
: On 2005.01.31, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, here's what I tried, using version 2.2 of valgrind: valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes --show-reachable=yes --num-callers=8 --log-file=/tmp/staging -v /export/aolserver4/bin/nsd-oracle -ft /export/aolserver4/staging.tcl -b 209.202.133.58

Re: [AOLSERVER] nsopenssl howto

2005-02-22 Thread Janine Sisk
On Feb 22, 2005, at 8:31 AM, Trenton Cameron wrote: http://openacs.org/doc/openacs-5-1/install-nsopenssl.html is a pretty good tutorial on howto install nsopenssl on aolserver That's good for installation, but not so much for configuration. However, if you download the OpenACS tarball and grab the

Re: [AOLSERVER] Leaky AS/Tcl memory allocator -- Tcl 8.4.7 the culprit

2005-04-06 Thread Janine Sisk
The system I'm having the most leak problems on is already using 8.4.6, unfortunately. But I'd like to try your test code anyway and see what happens. Where do I get this Threads extension? janine On Apr 6, 2005, at 6:20 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2005.04.06, Dossy Shiobara [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [AOLSERVER] Help in upgrading to 3.5

2005-05-24 Thread Janine Sisk
On May 24, 2005, at 6:41 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Perhaps someone could coax Zoran into providing a patch for the Tcl Bug #1178445 which fixed the memory leak in question: Zoran, pretty please? :) This would really help me, as I'm setting up new production servers this week and I really

[AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-13 Thread Janine Sisk
I just upgraded several sites from AOLserver 4.0.8 to 4.0.10. I added the following script to /usr/local/aolserver/modules/tcl/roll-logs.tcl, as I always do: # from Michael Cleverly: # http://www.opennsd.org/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl? msg_id=5ntopic_id=1t opic=OpenNSD proc roll_logs {}

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-13 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 13, 2005, at 5:14 PM, Tom Jackson wrote: I don't see how any of this works the way you described it, and even if it did, you shouldn't need a shared var to run a proc once daily, otherwise we need to change the proc name to ns_schedule_run_once_per_thread_daily. Maybe so, but it was

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-13 Thread Janine Sisk
Sorry Dossy, forgot to hit reply all so you get three copies. On Jun 13, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Strangely, this smells like a config issue -- either an error in your config, or a change to AOLserver that could be breaking backward compatibility. I'm hoping it's the former and

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-13 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 13, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2005.06.13, Janine Sisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could be, but the config files were copied across and changed as little as possible. We did revamp our directory structure while we were at it, though, so I could have messed something up

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-13 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 13, 2005, at 7:45 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Am I missing something, or where do you ever set schedule_roll to something other than 0? Good point. It worked, so I never noticed that (I didn't write this, I borrowed it). Still, this Tcl shouldn't get sourced in more than once at

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-14 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:12 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: The question is what in Janine's code is calling the same thing N times. This is the bug. I don't think it's in my code. To make sure it's clear, here's the scenario: On 4.0.8 (and many versions previous) I put the script roll-logs.tcl, which

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-15 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 14, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Janine said that she is not using virtual servers. However, the behavior she's describing *only* makes sense if she were. I'm not. Certainly not intentionally, anyway. Janine, could you do a quick test: snip Do you get one log entry, or

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-15 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 15, 2005, at 7:50 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: Any ns_param in the ns/servers section defines a new virtual server. In this case, you defined a virtual server whose name is dbname(test) and its description is test. Whoa. that's slightly unexpected. :) I haven't used virtual servers

Re: [AOLSERVER] proc getting scheduled more than once

2005-06-15 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jun 15, 2005, at 7:39 AM, Tom Jackson wrote: I'm just wondering if the above param line used to be something like: set dbname(test) test ?? There is actually a set and an ns_param for dbname. As I recall, you had to use ns_param if you wanted to access the value from outside of the

[AOLSERVER] Problem building 4.0.10 on FC4

2005-06-26 Thread Janine Sisk
I started out with this error: conn.c: In function ‘NsTclConnObjCmd’: conn.c:843: error: invalid lvalue in assignment Line 843 looks like this: connPtr = (Conn *) conn = itPtr-conn; The gcc version here is # gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8) The exact same tarball

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problem building 4.0.10 on FC4

2005-06-27 Thread Janine Sisk
or tomorrow. I think it's a more strict warning for gcc4.0 -- the code has technically worked for years :) -jim On Jun 26, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Janine Sisk wrote: I started out with this error: conn.c: In function ‘NsTclConnObjCmd’: conn.c:843: error: invalid lvalue in assignment Line 843 looks

Re: [AOLSERVER] Problem building 4.0.10 on FC4

2005-06-27 Thread Janine Sisk
Thanks, guys - I have a successful build now. If you don't hear from me again on this then it actually works, too. :) janine On Jun 27, 2005, at 10:58 AM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: On 2005.06.27, Jim Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah -- sorry -- didn't read that far. As for the second

Re: [AOLSERVER] Server not stopping properly

2005-07-18 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 18, 2005, at 5:35 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: If you look in your server logs from when it was running 4.0.1, at shutdown you probably saw an fatal error being logged. If so, I suspect you were taking advantage of SF Bug #1029918: Nope, actually not:

[AOLSERVER] Charset problem

2005-07-19 Thread Janine Sisk
Hi all, I've just made a mess for myself and I'm hoping someone will know how to fix it. It's really more of an Oracle problem and the message below is a modified version of one i just sent to an Oracle list, but I thought perhaps someone here would have already struggled with it. I took a

Re: [AOLSERVER] Charset problem

2005-07-19 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 19, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Dossy Shiobara wrote: If you had accented characters (octets with the 8th bit set to 1) stored in the database under 8.1.7.4, then there is NO way the character set of the database was US7ASCII. If it was, then when the data was stored it would have been

[AOLSERVER] charset problem update

2005-07-20 Thread Janine Sisk
Below is the update I just sent to the Oracle list, in case it sparks any ideas here. I have no objection to UTF-8 except that converting to it is problematic, according to Ask Tom, because everything takes up more space and things can overflow their storage (something else Oracle should

Re: [AOLSERVER] charset problem update

2005-07-20 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:48 AM, Carsten Clasohm wrote: and search for A Horror Story About Oracle and Charsets. Wow. Yes, that's the scenario exactly. And I'm actually somewhat proud to say that I followed almost exactly the same path as Branimir - I had a lot of respect for him back in the

[AOLSERVER] Charset problem update

2005-07-20 Thread Janine Sisk
Still plugging away at this, without much progress so far. Branimir's directions say to edit four different spots in the dump file. The Metalink note only mentions the first. I did the first two from Branimir's list; the other two were in the middle of user data so that seemed like a bad

Re: [AOLSERVER] charset problem update

2005-07-20 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Carsten Clasohm wrote: Janine Sisk wrote: I have never had to edit a binary file, but how bad can it be? (note to self - make copy first :) Below is a little C program I wrote the last time I had to fix a dump file. Run it with Thanks, Carsten. I tried

[AOLSERVER] Charset success (I think)

2005-07-20 Thread Janine Sisk
Well, after all that, here's what finally seems to have worked: create a database under 9i in US7ASCII, load the data as such, and then use ALTER DATABASE to convert to WE8ISO8859P1. My test page finally does not have question marks where they shouldn't be. Of course, I'm not done yet. I

Re: [AOLSERVER] access log getting wiped

2005-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 21, 2005, at 3:49 AM, Mark Aufflick wrote: That's interesting to note about the rollfmt/maxbackup thing - it answers Janine's point about eventually losing log data with maxbackup. It does, though I'm not sure I'd want to rely on it - it sounds like something that someone could

Re: [AOLSERVER] charset problem update

2005-07-21 Thread Janine Sisk
On Jul 20, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Andrew Piskorski wrote: You should run csscan on that database to get an idea of the extent of your character set problems. I'm doing this now, against the original database, to hopefully give me an idea of which tables need to be updated with the data I

[AOLSERVER] Server not stopping, revisited

2005-08-09 Thread Janine Sisk
Ok, sorry for the break - I had to go off and work on something else, but I'm back now. To recap: I have a site that has a lot of scheduled procs that run frequently, so there is one going off every few seconds. Under AOLserver 4.0.1, I had no problems restarting this site, but under

Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver not responding or hanging

2005-10-03 Thread Janine Sisk
All of our busier AOLserver-based sites hang like this periodically, but that's maybe once or twice a month. Five times a day sounds a bit extreme. You might need to increase your number of connections, or maybe your stack size (though running out of stack tends to cause crashes rather

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