Author: James Swafford
Date: 06:11:57 07/22/04
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On July 22, 2004 at 01:38:56, Daniel Shawul wrote: >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 > > for me this is equivalent to nothing. Can't work at night. > Please let us know if there is any better solution. > daniel > Note that I'm on EST: you posted this at 1:38 AM EST. -- James >>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
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