Thanks Gustaf!  That very well could be the problem.  I fixed it by increasing 
the number of database connections, which might just have the effect of 
preventing me from getting to this point.

janine

On Nov 7, 2010, at 11:52 PM, Gustaf Neumann wrote:

> Dear Janine
> 
> The symptoms sound  similar to bug #1615787
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1615787&group_id=3152&atid=103152
> this bug is fixed in the 4.0 branch (not sure, if you are using
> a version before this fix) and in aolserver 4.5.1
> 
> best regards
> -gustaf neumann
> 
> 
> 2007-10-19 Gustaf Neumann  [email protected]
> 
>    * nsd/driver.c:
>    * nsd/queue.c:
> 
>      Better fix for BUG #1615787 in aolserver 4.5. Although the
>      original fix apparently helped for www.openacs.org, it
>      appears to simply change the timing, but did not fix the
>      problem itself. The problem was that under limited resource
>      configurations (e.g. maxthreads 5, maxconnections 3) and
>      heavy traffic, incoming requests were queued but not
>      processed in new connection threads. The situation was
>      especially bad, when the number of queued requests was
>      larger than maxconnections, since after processing n
>      requests the server was idling with a high number of queued
>      requests.
> 
> 2006-12-15 Dossy Shiobara <[email protected]>
> 
>    * nsd/driver.c: [BUG #1615787] Fix deadlock bug when driver
>      thread stalls under specific conditions.  Thanks to Jeff
>      Rogers and Gustaf Neumann.
> 
> On 06.11.10 17:23, Janine Ohmer wrote:
>> Another day, another problem. ;)
>> 
>> This time it's a somewhat more recent (but still old) OpenACS site, that has 
>> always run under AOLserver 4.0.10.  Overnight it got hit pretty hard by the 
>> Yahoo crawler, and it has stopped responding.  Netstat shows 117 
>> connections, 78 in CLOSE_WAIT state and the rest in SYN_RECV.
>> 
>> This site would hang up very occasionally on my old system;  I would just 
>> restart it, since it didn't happen often enough to worry about.  But it has 
>> only been running for about 16 hours, and that is way too soon to be doing 
>> this.
>> 
>> The new system is more powerful than the old one, and runs a much newer 64 
>> bit Linux, vs a very old 32 bit one.  It's entirely possible that my 
>> configuration (connections) is not ideal, but it hasn't changed so I would 
>> expect it to run at least as well on the new system as it did on the old.
>> 
>> For now I will just restart it but I'm sure this will happen again.  Any 
>> suggestions on how to troubleshoot?  I have never had much luck over the 
>> years figuring this out;  I usually just end up installing keepalive to 
>> restart, but that is really not ideal.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> 
>> janine
>> 
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