Author: James Swafford
Date: 07:04:09 07/22/04
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On July 22, 2004 at 09:54:52, Anthony Cozzie 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. > >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). manageable != acceptable :) I'm sure he'll fix it when he has time... he is very very busy these days, and I can sympathize. Until then, I'm satisfied with the temporary killall ccc_client, as long as it's on a non-critical box. -- James > >anthony
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