On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 04:02:39PM +0400, BeerBong wrote:
> Cache size after 24 hours of working
> via 'du -s' - 53M
> via 'perl -MFile::Cacje -e"print File::Cache::SIZE('PRTL')"' - 10M
That looks like a serious bug. Can you double check on that? Where
are you running the "du -s"?
The SIZE( ) method returns the total size of the objects in the cache,
not including the overhead of directories themselves. As the
documentation explains, it isn't a perfect mechanism, but it should be
a lot closer than you experienced.
> What is the best way to limit cache ?
> May be variant when File::Cache::REDUCE_SIZE(10485760) in cron.dayly
> will be better solution ? I this case max_size doesnt need to specify
> in object initialization params...
I personally prefer using a cron job to periodically limit the size of
the cache. I don't like using "max_size" because of the overhead
involved on every set. I'd rather just fine tune the number of times
a cron script is executed (i.e., once an hour vs. once a day).
> Another kind of problem appears recently.
>
> In logs
> [Wed Feb 7 15:42:57 2001] [error] Couldn't rename
>/tmp/File::Cache/.description.tmp13984 to /tmp/File::Cache/.description at
>/usr/web/inc/WebCache.pm line 15
> [Wed Feb 7 15:44:37 2001] [error] Couldn't rename
>/tmp/File::Cache/apache/PRTL/b/5/a/b5a261aa13cf0ddfd41beb7d64960248.tmp13441 to
>/tmp/File::Cache/apache/PRTL/b/5/a/b5a261aa13cf0ddfd41beb7d64960248 at
>/usr/web/inc/WebCache.pm line 87
> ...propagated at /usr/web/inc/Apache/Portal.pm line 109.
>
> What I can do ?
Unfortunately the error message doesn't tell me enough. If you can,
please modify lines 1578 and 1579 of Cache.pm to read as follows:
rename ($temp_filename, $filename) or
croak("Couldn't rename $temp_filename to $filename: $!");
The next time it hangs, the error message will have more information.
I'll fix that in the next version of File::Cache.
> And another question (I'm use Linux Debian Potato)...
> Is there way to define params of the currently performing request
> (URI, script, etc) of hanging mod_perl process ? I browsed /proc/[PID of
> mod_perl]/, but I think this info is about first request. Am I wrong ?
Are you looking in /proc/[pid]/environ for the request parameters?
I'm surprised this information was available even for the first
request. I don't believe environ is updated dynamically (I think it
is filled out once on the exec of the process). It certainly won't
provide the information on subsequent requests. In any case, the
format and behavior of /proc is so dependent on the particular version
of the Linux kernel that I wouldn't want to rely on it for anything
more than occasional debugging.
Two options for you would be to log the request every time via warn.
It will fill your logs very quickly, but hopefully it will hang
quickly and you can get the debugging information out.
Another solution is to compile apache and mod_perl with debugging
symbols and attach to it with "gdb". I have tried this a long time,
though. Please see the current thread about using gdb.
Best of luck!
-DeWitt
