Re: [mv] Puzzled by runaway perl process

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <hans-joachim.leidinger@home.gelsen-net.de>]

Brian Knotts wrote:
> Recently, my minivend installation has started having a strange problem.
> minivend stops responding; load goes up to around 1.00 and stays there. There
> is always a hung perl process that is using ~97% CPU. Error and web server logs
> reveal nothing of interest; I haven't found any pattern to this.
> 
> In order to recover, I have to stop minivend, kill -9 all perl processes, and
> then restart minivend.
> 
> Does this sound familiar to anyone else? This has just started happening to me
> in the past few weeks. I have four fairly low-volume sites on this machine.
> 
> The minivend box is a Linux box, running kernel 2.2.13.
> Brian Knotts                                          bknotts@europa.com

Hi Brian,

if you have not set mv_matchlimit=10 or so and you are searching for any
items from a big database, you get this high CPU rate, because building
dynamic html page need CPU-Power for all founding items.

If you use windows, there are no change to decrease the high CPU rate.
With windows as a OS, perl is running in a dos box. Minivend use perl.

Regards,

Joachim

BTW: Sorry for my poor english!

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