I agree with Henrik (both clarifications)

For the record, the error happens with a surprising value in aSize.

It happens when aSize is as low as 260       

o.O

sebastian

o/






On May 24, 2012, at 5:33 AM, Henrik Sperre Johansen wrote:

> On 23.05.2012 20:18, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
>> On 23 May 2012, at 19:48, Marcus Denker wrote:
>> 
>>> No, the image as it is now just quits. Delayed our deployment of the ESUG 
>>> registration server
>>> for some weeks... normal seaside use, image quites after a day.
>>> 
>>> It's far from obvious.
>>> 
>>> I think the image should work out of the box. Why destinguish between 
>>> deployment and development?
>>> What is good in deployment is for sure gut in development.
> It's the other way around in this case, what's good in development is not 
> always so good in deployment.
> In development, you want to be notified of issues as soon as possible.
> If they still slip through to deployment, you want them dealt with as 
> gracefully as possible.
> 
> 
>> It might be a bit surprising, but I think Hendrik's reasoning is quite good: 
>> you don't want to keep on expanding when there are problems not freeing 
>> resources that are limited. A good server needs resource limits.
>> 
>> We can discuss more tomorrow…
>> 
>> Sven
>> 
>> 
>> 
> Well, both that, and the fact it can't be done safely.
> The process of increasing its size might lead to lost signals.
> 
> 99% of the time, setting the size at startup to a larger value than the 
> default (before anything but the input semaphore is registered)  is a better 
> approach than increasing automatically, and in the remaining 1% it is better 
> to fix whatever application issue is causing semaphore leaks anyways.
> 
> Cheers,
> Henry
> 

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