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Subject: Re: Status of CCC Search

Author: Daniel Shawul

Date: 06:37:05 07/22/04

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On July 22, 2004 at 09:11:57, James Swafford wrote:

>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.

  And that's just when i am getting out of work.
  I am at GMT + 3 and the server doesn't work for me
  when i am writing this message.

  daniel
>
>--
>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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