Hi Eliot,

You could be hitting a bug in MarkLogic. It might be worth upgrading to
8.0-7, and seeing if it still happens with that version. A lot of patches
and performance improvements have been made since 8.0-3.2..

Cheers,
Geert

On 8/23/17, 5:47 PM, "[email protected] on behalf of
Eliot Kimber" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:

>Yes, I checked the log and the messages are:
>
>2017-08-22 21:43:42.287 Info: TaskServer: profiling-task.xqy
>[4136613570697343302]: Starting, start: 32361, group size: 10,
>outdir="/profiling/trial-058/group-3237/
>2017-08-22 21:43:42.287 Info: TaskServer: "
>2017-08-22 21:43:42.405 Info: Saving /marklogic/Forests/Meters/00000a02
>2017-08-22 21:44:34.572 Notice: Starting MarkLogic Server 8.0-3.2 x86_64
>in /opt/MarkLogic with data in /marklogic
>2017-08-22 21:44:34.617 Info: Host **** running Linux
>3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.8
>(Santiago))
>2017-08-22 21:44:34.690 Info: SSL FIPS mode has been enabled
>
>The first message is from my task indicating that the 3237st (out of
>50,000 in the queue) is starting.
>
>Then the MarkLogic start message for no obvious reason. It’s not a time
>at which a scheduled server restart would have likely happened and nobody
>was (or should have been) awake at that hour and I’m the only person who
>should be doing anything with this server anyway.
>
>What’s interesting is that I’m getting this restart consistently at about
>the 3200th task, so it feels like either a time out or a resource
>exhaustion that then triggers a restart, but there are no messages about
>any kind of failure, out of memory condition, etc.
>
>I’m pretty sure it’s an issue with the configuration of the underlying
>linux server but I wanted to know if there were any conditions under
>which the Task Server or ML server itself would spontaneously restart.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Eliot
>
>--
>Eliot Kimber
>http://contrext.com
> 
>
>
>On 8/23/17, 10:25 AM, "[email protected] on behalf
>of Dave Cassel" <[email protected] on behalf of
>[email protected]> wrote:
>
>    I don't believe there's any reason why the Task Server would be
>triggering
>    a restart (although some configuration changes affecting the Task
>Server
>    would). I'd look elsewhere for an error. Specifically, I'd check
>    ErrorLog.txt, find the time when a restart happened, and look to see
>if
>    anything interesting was logged just before. (Perhaps you've already
>done
>    that.) 
>    
>    -- 
>    Dave Cassel, @dmcassel <https://twitter.com/dmcassel>
>    Technical Community Manager
>    MarkLogic Corporation <http://www.marklogic.com/>
>    
>    http://developer.marklogic.com/
>    
>    
>    
>    
>    On 8/23/17, 11:18 AM, "[email protected] on
>behalf
>    of Eliot Kimber" <[email protected] on behalf of
>    [email protected]> wrote:
>    
>    >I¹m trying to understand the Task Server (and in my case, why it is
>    >consistently restarting after satisfying a subset of its queue).
>    >
>    >Going through the ML 8 docs I¹m not finding any general discussion
>of the
>    >Task Server, only references to it from elsewhere (e.g., in the docs
>for
>    >xdmp:spawn() and in discussion of scheduling tasks).
>    >
>    >But not finding anything that would appear to provide insight into
>why
>    >the server would perform an uncommanded restart (or information
>    >indicating that it would never do that and thus the problem must be
>    >elsewhere).
>    >
>    >Have I missed it? Given that the Task Server is a built-in and
>prominent
>    >part of MarkLogic it seems odd that there¹s no general documentation
>for
>    >it, which makes me think I must have missed it. But I both searched
>the
>    >doc set and ToC and scanned the entire Guide ToC and didn¹t find
>anything.
>    >
>    >Thanks,
>    >
>    >Eliot
>    >--
>    >Eliot Kimber
>    >http://contrext.com
>    > 
>    >
>    >
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