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On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Jesse Tayler wrote:

> wait a second here Pascal -- you were able to launch 9 instances on a micro?
> 
> I can launch - ...one... - the second instance is rather unceremoniously 
> killed.
> 
> Sure enough, there's no swap and not a lot of memory -- how am I using so 
> much more RAM than you?
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken -- this says I have a whopping 9K of free memory -- I 
> feel like a wild man on a DEC PDP-8 - single user mode!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ~]$ free
>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:        610196     600856       9340          0        696       9924
> -/+ buffers/cache:     590236      19960
> Swap:            0          0          0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 12, 2011, at 1:10 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Le 2011-04-11 à 16:03, Jesse Tayler a écrit :
>> 
>>> Right, but now for some reason I'm running out of memory but I note monitor 
>>> has increased memory settings? Or is this because I'm trying to use a 
>>> "micro" instance of an amazon server?
>> 
>> I got a "micro" instance to play with last week, and I was able to start 9 
>> instances of AjaxExample from Wonder. The server was only running httpd, 
>> JavaMonitor, wotaskd and the instances. After 9 instances, wotaskd was still 
>> trying to launch the other 21 other instances (I wanted to see how the VM 
>> would react) over and over again.
>> 
>>> the command line seems to run from the terminal, but I get this complaint 
>>> in the WO app log:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> callUnixProcess [/home/appserver/bin/imagesize.sh 64 jpg]
>>> java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "/home/appserver/bin/imagesize.sh": 
>>> java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory
>> 
>> Look like that error is when the system is out of memory. Run the "free" 
>> command to check how much memory is available:
>> 
>> [probert@wocommunity ~]$ free
>>            total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>> Mem:       1574912    1564208      10704          0      22528     646312
>> 
>> I did notice that a "micro" instance don't have any swap space, which is 
>> kind of bad. If you can live with a bit less of disk space, see :
>> 
>> http://siva2009.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/adding-linux-swap-file-how-to/
>> 
>> Maybe the other instances size have swap space by default, but I don't know.
>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> here's monitor settings, includes proper memory no? unrelated?
>>> 
>>> -Xms128m -Xmx256m -DWOAllowsConcurrentRequestHandling=true
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Apr 11, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Pascal Robert wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Le 2011-04-11 à 14:47, Jesse Tayler a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm launching a UNIX script to generate image thumbnails and 
>>>>> troubleshooting with a new server setup.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Unless I'm mistaken, the script is unable to launch due to permissions 
>>>>> and WO seems to be running user 501 without a username.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Now I can't recall if that's how it used to be, should I be running uid 
>>>>> 501 with no account/username?
>>>> 
>>>> Normally, the user who run wotaskd and Monitor (and your apps) is 
>>>> "appserver". I guess that user is not on your new server, and that since 
>>>> no other user have a ID of 501, it's running on the ID of the user coming 
>>>> from the .tar.gz of wotaskd and Monitor.
>>>> 
>>>> So, you should create a "appserver" user and use 501 as the id for this 
>>>> user (or create the user and do a "chown -R appserver" on the directory 
>>>> where WO and your apps are).
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't want a security disaster, but I do need to launch some scripts 
>>>>> that require a decent shell env.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Advice?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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