On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Dan DaCosta <chaos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ActiveMQ started normally. > This fixed the problem. > I should note that I do not yet fully understand the ActiveMQ or > Gitorious software systems. > Dan, thanks for sharing this information! The posts on this mailing list get good search engine rankings for people having the same problems and googling for solutions, so this is a great help. ActiveMQ not running will indeed create a non-working Gitorious installation, since Gitorious uses ActiveMQ (or similar messaging systems) to provide async handling of long-running processes such as creation of Git objects (repositories, branches etc.) on disk. For anyone interested in this, this wiki page: http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/GitoriousComponents has some background on how things work together. I would recommend users running their own Gitorious installations to use some kind of monitoring of the processes Gitorious relies on: - The git daemon (which serves repositories over the git:// protocol) - The poller script (which consumes and processes messages sent to the messaging server) - The messaging server (eg. ActiveMQ) - The sphinx daemon (which performs full-text searches) On gitorious.org we use Monit (http://mmonit.com/monit/) for keeping these processes running. Monit is a daemon that watches processes, typically by looking for a pid file and trying to connect to a port) and knows commands that will start/stop/restart processes as required. In our experience, Monit performs very well, and it is probably available through your systems package manager. The Gitorious wiki ( http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/<http://gitorious.org/gitorious/pages/GitoriousComponents>) could be a good place to add working Monit configuration files; if you have one please put them in the wiki. I'm sure someone on the list uses something other than Monit with success, I'm sure experiences/tips on this would be valuable - please share! Cheers, - Marius -- To post to this group, send email to gitorious@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to gitorious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
