Hi Are you doing a lot of simulataneous cfmails, we found this caused us problems (up to 8 mails being sent simultaneously) Have you got any scheduled tasks that are crashing ?
Phil Phil Watson Software Manager Enigma Interactive Tel. +44 (0)191 261 2991 Fax. +44 (0)191 261 2378 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.enigma-interactive.co.uk 7-15 Pink Lane Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 5DW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 12:05 PM Subject: RE: Client vs Session variables > Sorry to say it, but I'm back after a hectic day yesterday. We've upgraded to RedHat 7.3 (and replaced a broken drive in the RAID array, but that's another story), and we've still got the frequent crashing problem. > > So far we've tried this: > > 1. All our session/application variables are locked for writing, and using Auto read locking. > 2. The ODBC drivers were updated to the latest version (interbase easysoft) > 3. The Client variables are now stored in a DB > 4. Upgraded server to RedHat v7.3 > [Disk was found to be faulty in the Raid array and was replaced] > 5. Ran server for a while with a single processor kernel - no better. > 6. Registry still looked big so purged all remaining client variables. > 7. Moved the app's database from application variable to request variable. > 8. CF 5 Hot Fixes applied > > If anyone can suggest *anything* else I can try I'd be very grateful. > > Thanks, > > Simon > > --- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Applications Development Manager > Warwick Business School > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2002 14:48:15 >>> > Ew. Red Hat 7.0, to be honest, Red Hat 7.0 has more compiler/Library issues than ever known by mankind. Even Red Hat disowned it. > > However. What you need to do is get strace to dump the PID files into /tmp instead of traying to grab the running PID. The Pause is a child thread waiting for a response > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Simon Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:45 AM > > To: CF-Linux > > Subject: RE: Client vs Session variables > > > > Thanks again Jesse: > > > However, what distro/version are you running for 1. > > > > RedHat 7.0: > > Linux stanley 2.2.19-7.0.12smp #1 SMP Fri Oct 26 15:17:55 EDT 2001 i686 > > unknown > > > > > Number 2, you've checked the variable locking, right? > > > > We've locked all the writes and used auto read locking > > > > > Number 3: Strace: the output is not human readable, but if you can get > > the output from the thread > > > that died, you should be able to figure out where the error was > > generated. > > > > If I type strace -p 1234 for a cfserver it just sits there saying "pause(" > > until I hit CTRL-C. > > > > > Number 4: Are you using cfmail? Have you checked the spool? > > > > Yes, we do use it but I can't see any problems there (FWIW in the past I > > changed the permission in that directory accidently and the server crashed > > every time it tried to send mail). > > > > Cheers, > > > > Simon > > > > Jesse Noller > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Macromedia Server Development > > Unix/Linux "special guy" > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Simon Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:34 AM > > > To: CF-Linux > > > Subject: RE: Client vs Session variables > > > > > > Thanks for getting back to me. Is there any way of working out where > > that > > > someplace else is ? > > > > > > Ta > > > > > > Simon > > > > > > --- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Applications Development Manager > > > Warwick Business School > > > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2002 14:30:54 >>> > > > Actually, you're probably NOT seeing an error from SIG11s Sig11s are > > > generic errors which generally don't bring CF down. > > > > > > The error is going to lie someplace else in the system > > > > > > Jesse Noller > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Macromedia Server Development > > > Unix/Linux "special guy" > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Simon Harper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 4:08 AM > > > > To: CF-Linux > > > > Subject: Client vs Session variables > > > > > > > > I've been trying to track down a 'SIG11' error that's bringing our > > site > > > > down every half an hour (on a good day). I'm really not getting > > > anywhere > > > > so I thought I might try a different approach ... > > > > > > > > The users' experience is that when CF crashes their session is lost. > > > Our > > > > site uses session variables heavily for navigation. We allow people > > to > > > > post messages to a dicussion board in one area of the site, so when > > they > > > > post their carefully crafted message they'll often find that their > > > session > > > > is already toast and that the app has no idea what to do with their > > > > message (so throws it away). > > > > > > > > On the other hand, the crashes per se are not that disruptive (if > > you're > > > > unlucky to see the error message you can usually 'refresh' to get > > going > > > > again). > > > > > > > > So my question is, can we convert all our session variable into client > > > > variable which will be nicely maintained in the database, and should > > > > survive a restart ? > > > > > > > > Thanks for any advice you may have, > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > > Simon. > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Applications Development Manager > > > > Warwick Business School > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
