Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 06:54:52 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. While I hate to criticize Andrei's freely given work, infinite forking is _not_ a manageable bug. Tell him to fix it, and then (as he suggested) run it with nice 20 (making it the absolute lowest priority on the system). anthony
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