On Jun 16, 2011, at 3:14 PM, P Teeson wrote:

> The overseas organisation that contacted me is having a problem with their WO 
> app.
> It is running on a Dual 500 MHz PPC G4 with 1GB RAM and running Tiger Server 
> 10.4.11.
> The backend DB is under Oracle on a Sun server.

I am pretty sure that is a known Apache issue on that config, not a WO issue.  
If it IS a WO issue, the problem lies in mod_webobjects (and the other WO 
adaptor code) not the WO app itself.


Chuck


> 
> The current problem is that the httpd root task gets into a situation where 
> it keeps spawning www tasks. 
> It initially starts of with 5 of them. At some point in time there are a 
> multitude of them and 
> the system slows down to the point of having to be re-booted.
> 
> I have now received the source code for the WO app. It turns out to be an 
> Xcode project. 
> My present environment is Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and Xcode 3.2.6 on an Intel Mac 
> Pro (2009 Nehalem 2xQuad Core) etc.
> 
> Leopard was last the OS X version where Apple provided WO support. I do have 
> Leopard 10.5.8 as a bootable partition.
> Also Xcode is installed and I can install whatever WO stuff is needed from 
> the dvd. I have also DL'd WO 5.4.3 but not installed it yet.
> 
> I also have available a G4 PPC 867MHz machine which I can setup as a web 
> server if this is needed.
> (It runs Tiger 10.4.11 but not Server version. Server is available to me and 
> I can setup a separate partition as a test environment)
> 
> Browsing around in the Xcode project I see a folder named GCRI.eomodeld 
> containing a lot of .fspec and .plist files.
> Then a whole bunch of other folders containing .java source files. 
> And a folder named Web Components containing other folders in which are .api, 
> .wo, .html, .wod, and .woo files.
> 
> Finally there is a single target named GCRI made up of two sub targets named 
> Application Server and Web Server
> 
> Please advise me as to the best debugging path to follow to diagnose the 
> spawning issue.
> 
> Thanks for your advice and
> 
> respect....
> 
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