Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace memory issue

2012-02-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
several of the memory leaks. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 09/02/2012 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (93% of Full

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tools for automatic creation of dublin core and contents

2011-08-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
/ Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 10/08/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (75% of Full) -- uberSVN's rich

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tools for automatic creation of dublin core and contents

2011-08-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
. Not, it doesn't. It just makes it easier to generate the DSpace batch importer format. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 10/08/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (77% of Full

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Installation on Ubuntu

2011-08-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, bonface asiligwa wrote: I have been  trying to instaation of  dspace on ubuntu 11.04 but i dont succed can someone just give a step by step installation of  Dspace 7.1.2 https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Installing+DSpace+1.7+on+Ubuntu -- Tom De Mulder td

Re: [Dspace-tech] SSL and HTTPS Question

2011-08-01 Thread Tom De Mulder
log in. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 01/08/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (9% of Full

[Dspace-tech] Hiding dark items

2011-07-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 29/07/2011 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (14% of Full) -- Got Input

[Dspace-tech] Custom thumbnail code

2011-06-17 Thread Tom De Mulder
to have. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 17/06/2011 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full) -- EditLive

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
) We've put considerable work in filtering dark items from search results (which took a lot of work, and yet was still a dirty hack) and OAI. It would be nice to see this functionality in the main code base. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 10/05/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (46% of Full) -- Achieve

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
to Simon to answer, so I don't make a hash of it. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -- Beautiful

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
Dear all, I'm attaching a dump of our PostgreSQL configuration to this email. We got some input from Postgres developers into how best to tune for our needs, but if someone has suggestions for things to try then we'd be happy to hear them. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk

[Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-07 Thread Tom De Mulder
DSpace scalability issues report, per wiki template: 1. dsp...@cambridge, The University of Cambridge, UK. Technical contacts: Tom De Mulder, td...@cam.ac.uk (systems manager) Simon Brown st...@cam.ac.uk (DSpace developer) 2. a. DSpace version 1.6.2 with extensive local patches, using

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-07 Thread Tom De Mulder
search engine and similar services to throttle their index rate so the servers wouldn't get overloaded. Also of note is that the problems are mostly on the database and webapp end, there are no problems with I/O (disk or network). -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-10-06 Thread Tom De Mulder
for this. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
took it into production. But your mileage may vary. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -- Start

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
, and our resident DSpace developer is on leave this week.) I am really glad to hear from other people with problems similar to ours. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
wanted to try writing a project in Java, but I could be wrong. :) Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
that are much bigger, do similar things and require far, far less in terms of resources. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-23 Thread Tom De Mulder
. After all, it doesn't matter that many bitstreams will be identical. That is how we populated our test environment here so we could replicate the problems we were seeing on the live system. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-22 Thread Tom De Mulder
, deleting a collection with 1200 items on our rather powerful DSpace machines will take two hours, and uses most of the available memory. You can see why I would like that no longer to be the case. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-20 Thread Tom De Mulder
. There are quite a few memory leaks in DSpace. We have a cronjob to restart Tomcat nightly, because otherwise it'll break the next day. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 20/09/2010

Re: [Dspace-tech] Meatadata dates stored as UTC

2010-06-25 Thread Tom De Mulder
the advantage of not being dependent on time zones or daylight savings. The best thing to do is to store them in this timezone, but to convert them on display to the local time. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke

Re: [Dspace-tech] Bad robot! Googlebot and Internal Server Errors

2010-02-11 Thread Tom De Mulder
: The value of this field specifies a partial URL that is not to be visited. This can be a full path, or a partial path; any URL that starts with this value will not be retrieved. Note the starts with. See also: http://www.robotstxt.org/ Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace and https

2010-02-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
you tried following the SSL Howto? It may address your problem: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 09/02/2010

[Dspace-tech] DSpace batch ingest scalability and performance

2010-01-19 Thread Tom De Mulder
De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 19/01/2010 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full) -- Throughout its 18-year

[Dspace-tech] Zotero

2009-12-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service - 09/12/2009 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (52% of Full) -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net

[Dspace-tech] Batch importer spreadsheet metadata mapping tool

2009-09-18 Thread Tom De Mulder
/metadatamapper/ Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 18/09/2009 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (7% of Full

Re: [Dspace-tech] Why the DSpace checksum checker?

2009-04-17 Thread Tom De Mulder
. -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 17/04/2009 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (54% of Full) -- Stay on top

Re: [Dspace-tech] Performance issues with bitstream checker

2009-04-16 Thread Tom De Mulder
as well, such as our thumbnails (which aren't using the DSpace code, because we wanted to separate something as user-interface-centric as that from the actual archive contents; the DSpace code was also just too slow and just crashed our server). Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge

Re: [Dspace-tech] Backup procedure

2009-02-20 Thread Tom De Mulder
De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 20/02/2009 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (38% of Full) -- Open Source Business

Re: [Dspace-tech] Speed problem in postgres during batch ingesting

2009-01-27 Thread Tom De Mulder
recovered properly. best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 27/01/2009 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (3% of Full

Re: [Dspace-tech] Google bots and web crawlers

2009-01-14 Thread Tom De Mulder
, and still get indexed. DSpace 1.x has major scalability issues, alas. No matter how much hardware you throw at it. Best, -- Tom De Mulder td...@cam.ac.uk - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 14/01/2009 : The Moon is Waning

Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding and removing bitstreams

2008-09-23 Thread Tom De Mulder
fed up with this, but it's such a mess to sort out properly. -- Tom De Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Cambridge University Computing Service - 23/09/2008 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (53% of Full) - This SF.Net email is sponsored

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Tom De Mulder
; it would be better if everything used the ResourcePolicy rather than the columns on the collection table. Any reason why they can't be dropped for this release? Best, -- Tom De Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Tom De Mulder
was just hoping that 1.5 would get us started further along that route. :-) Thanks for the response, -- Tom De Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH - 15/02/2008 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (59