Re: MiniVend dies & Hammerlock issues

["Bill" <bill@webteam.net>]

I have:

HammerLock 60
HouseKeeping 5
MaxServers 7
PIDcheck  300

I've played with these numbers, but nothing seems to fix the problem I'm
having.  I actually don't think they are related.  Three quick reloads of a
page can lock it up.  Under no circumstances should this happen, but it
does.

The same happens on a BSDI system I'm running.  I'd be willing to bet there
are other systems out there that experience the same thing, but many of you
may not have noticed it yet or have not determined that this is the cause of
minivend crashing.  It is obvious though, that not everyone has this
problem, or load testing would most undoubtedly fail.

Bill



> ******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld
<pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******
>
> Inside of the minivend.cfg, there is a way to increase the possible
> number of request and I believe, processes. I would check that out.
>
> I looked in my cfg, things for people to checkout:
> HammerLock
> PIDcheck
> MaxServers
>
> HammerLock has to do with making sure searches and the like don't take
> too long.
> PIDcheck sees if any of the processes have hung.
> MaxServers allows for a number of servers to be running in the backend
> to serve multiple customers (set this high, like 25 for lots of people).
> Interestingly, Apache uses the same sort of thing on webservers.
> Definately a plus for minivend.
>
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