Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-18 Thread Paul Lussier
My apologies for the delayed response. It's been one fire after another lately :) kevin_d_cl...@comcast.net (Kevin D. Clark) writes: > 1: It sounds like you're experiencing a memory leak in >your Openfire server. It was indeed a memory leak, exacerbated by one particular client. We're at

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > The way that I try to design protocols and systems is to assume that > the entity at other end of the connection might be some infinitely bad > thing that is looking to take down the system. Indeed. That's a hallmark of good design. Any

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In > other protocols, I've seen clients do the equivalent of "repeated > malloc without free". Of course, the server should place limits on > resources a client can allocate, but some people consider that kind o

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: > 4:  If some particular client exacerbates this problem, this >    is interesting, but the root cause is still that the >    server is buggy. While still true, there are cases where it's less cut-and-dry: In other protocols, I've seen clie

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Paul Lussier writes: > Openfire docs don't seem to have a lot of information on performance > tuning, does anyone here have any experience with tuning this thing for > use in large environments with lots of users ? I don't have too many helpful things to say here except: 1: It sounds like you'r

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Lussier
Ed Robbins writes: > From a Java perspective, have you utilized any of the JMX tools to > connect to it while it's running to view it's vitals? You can also > force it to dump it's heap and then analyze it to see what's using all > of the memory, that may be helpful in determining what the culpr

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-07 Thread Ed Robbins
Ben Eisenbraun wrote: > Hey Paul, > > >> Is anyone here using the Openfire Jabber server with large numbers of >> users? >> > > Nope. There are only about 8 of us, but.. > > >> However, we are finding that it needs to be whacked fairly f

Re: Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-07 Thread Ben Eisenbraun
Hey Paul, > Is anyone here using the Openfire Jabber server with large numbers of > users? Nope. There are only about 8 of us, but.. > However, we are finding that it needs to be whacked fairly frequently. > We've seen Java OOM errors, etc. We started getting these a few

Openfire Jabber server

2010-01-07 Thread Paul Lussier
Hi all, Is anyone here using the Openfire Jabber server with large numbers of users? I have a server running Debian 4 with 2GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with 2 cores. This is a fairly decent machine, and ought to be more than enough power for running a Jabber server. However, we are finding