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Subject: Re: Status of CCC Search

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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