> The problem still occurs even if we turn logging off completely, so it seems
> unlikely that that's the issue.

By logging I meant my own logging, opening/closing file handles myself.
Not ns_log or access log, etc.

There used to be a command, I forget what now, which would return a list
of currently running threads and some info about them.  Maybe you could
look at that, see if there's anything interesting.  I'd recommend having a
scheduled proc run once a minute or so, outputting somewhere, since you
mentioned that scheduled procs still worked.

> Bouncing AOLServer clears things up, which makes me wonder about the Oracle
> idea. It's worth a look, though.

I think that worked for us too.  I wish I'd taken more note.  The problems
stopped, and I stopped worrying.  This was more like the 3.0 or 3.1 days
as well.

> One other interesting thing to note is that scheduled procs continue to
> operate normally. So the server is alive inside. It just doesn't serve up
> any pages.

That makes me think this is something external to aolserver, something is
grabbing the port.  I know it sounds dumb, but is there anything else
running?  Apache, something else?  I wondered when I had these problems if
*oracle* wasn't grabbing the port.  But I don't know.

Could this result from some deadlock condition?  a mutex problem, whether
in your code, or inherent in aolserver?

Rusty

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