Re: MiniVend Crash on Digital Unix

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

I'm having some difficulty putting in the Safe_signals code.  It appears to
track the server numbers correctly, but MV doesn't seem to recognize
MaxServers.  If I set it to 5, I can spawn off over15 other servers.  I
basically replaced the setup_signals and housekeeping routines in Server.pm.

Bill

> > Then this shows that Digital UNIX is especially vulnerable to the Perl
> > signal crash that is part of every Perl. Nothing you can do except
> > comment out the Sig_inc and Sig_dec, or put the Safe_signals stuff back
> > in. I would make the following settings to compensate:
> >
> > PIDcheck   60
> > MaxServers 10
> > HouseKeeping 2
> >
> > Pages that took more than 60 seconds to return (long uploads, imports,
> > and inefficient pages) would die a flaming death....
> >
> > And I would make sure I had plenty of memory. 8-)
> >
>
> Clarification: As it usually is, my comments are based on the latest
version.
>
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