Author: Bert van den Bosch
Date: 04:49:21 07/22/04
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On July 21, 2004 at 12:21:38, James Swafford wrote: >First, my apologies for having the service down this long already. >I had hoped to have it back up by now. > >The search engine lives on a production web server that runs >a few websites and email for a small ISP that's jointly >owned by me and two others. One of our clients has been complaining >about getting 404 errors _immediately_ after requesting a page >from their site. At first I didn't think it was our problem, but >over time I became convinced it was. > >After scratching our heads for a while, we thought we'd stop the >search engine to see what, if any, effect that would have. The >problem struck infrequently enough that it wasn't immediately obvious; >we'd have to 'wait and see'. Two (three?) weeks later, there have >been no complaints. > >Andrei has done a great job with the search engine, but it does >have a (manageable) bug. Over time, it forks more and more client >processes and the load average goes through the roof. I think the >high load average was the cause of the 404 errors. > >That's really not that big a deal: a 'killall ccc_client' here and >there takes care of things (that could even be cron'd). Andrei >suggested looking into the 'nice' command. > >To make a long story short, here's the deal: the other two >that run this business with me aren't crazy about hosting the >search engine on production equipment. They don't want it back >on. BUT... that machine is really mine. We are ordering two >new machines (today). Once set up, we will migrate the production >stuff off of my equipment. At that point, I'll be able to turn >the search engine back on. > >Until then, I can probably turn it on in the evenings (I'm >on EST), but I'm not going to go behind their backs by turning >it on during the business day. > >Just an update for those interested.... > >-- >James Hi, I always like to make use of the search engine, there's a lot to find, I noticed when I am busy with it that after running a few queries on it the engine shuts down, which happens every time I am using it. Well maybe it doesn't matter, I have to use my own brain again if the search engine is down :) greetings Bert
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