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Re: [mv] Re: MV 4.04a - Memory usage



Jim Toro wrote:
> 
> Seems like I have to switch to FreeBSD 4.3, too bad I really got used to
> my old BSDI boxes.
>

You shouldn't, now that FreeBSD and BSDi have joined forces....

I don't think you'll find any real differences - the semantics for the
systems are the same, with a few minor exceptions.

Dave
 
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> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, David Burgess wrote:
> 
> > I run all of my MiniVend processes with the limits as high as possible.
> >
> > I know it's not an elegant way to go, but one of the folks I work with
> > has a 30000 item catalog with 20 items flypages, and I never see these
> > problems (running NetBSD).
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > Jim Toro wrote:
> > >
> > > I am the ISP/Host so I can tweak anything. Could it be some kind of
> > > timeout either in ther kernel or in Apache ??.
> > >
> > > Just seems like when I do ML=7 it takes 5 seconds, when I say ML=8 or
> > > higher it takes about 10 seconds and goes to the internal error.
> > >
> > > I am playing with all kinds of sysctl, swap(fstab) and syslimits, maybe I
> > > will hit it.
> > >
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> > >  House Of Files Internet -  516-938-2421 -  http://www.hofweb.com
> > >  Specializing in E-Commerce and Access Database Web Sites
> > >  Serving Long Island's online community since 1985
> > >
> > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Victor Nolton wrote:
> > >
> > > > >Quoting Jim Toro (jimtoro@hoflink.com):
> > > > >>  tatus: RO
> > > > >>  Content-Length: 1638
> > > > >>  Lines: 44
> > > > >>
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  I have been working on a simple database of products for one of my
> > > > >>  customers and the database is only about 800 items.  However when the
> > > > >>  following search is processed.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>     [page search="
> > > > >>    sf=category
> > > > >>    tf=title
> > > > >>    se=[cat-data cat selector]
> > > > >>    ml=7
> > > > >>    va=perf_group=[cat-data cat selector]
> > > > >>    "
> > > > >>         ]<center><IMG SRC="[cat-data cat linkimage]" ALT="[cat-data cat
> > > > >>  name]" BORDER=0></center>[/page]
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  It will get an internal server error if I allow the ML=  line to be above
> > > > >>  7.  When the search is done there are 490 out of the total of 800 items
> > > > >>  found in this search.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  When it was alot less hits (say 200) I could have the ML= set up to
> > > > >>  about 20.  When the hits  got to around 400 it had to be brought down
> > > > >>  to ML=11 or so.  Now its got to be at ML=7.  As I add more items the ML=
> > > > >>  needs to be lower and lower but it seems this is dependant on the hits
> > > > >>  found. Any other search where the hits are low, I can set the ML much
> > > > >>  higher.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  Anyone know why this would be happening.  MV seems to eat tons of ram when
> > > > >>  it is doing this.  Is there something I can edit in catalog.cfg or
> > > > >>  something else to make it use less ram.  I cant figure out why it would be
> > > > >>  eating this much ram and dying PLUS why the ML= must be set so low.
> > > > >>
> > > > >>  I am running MV 4.04a, BSDI 3.1, Apache 1.3.12 on a Pentium 266 with
> > > > >>  128megs ram.  System runs flawlessly with everything else.
> > > > >
> > > > >This is the classic BSD mystery problem. I have no idea why this
> > > > >happens, but it has affected every older system with borderline RAM that
> > > > >I have seen on BSD, in versions of Minivend from 2.03 all the way
> > > > >through Interchange 4.6.x.
> > > > >
> > > > >I believe it is related to signals and Perl, but I cannot be sure. If
> > > > >you run in a debugging environment, you will probably see an "out of
> > > > >memory!" error. In any case, I am betting it affects everything prior to
> > > > >Interchange 4.7.x on BSD unless you have plenty of RAM, and sometimes
> > > > >even then on a busy system.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I do know that if a process takes tooo long you get a internal server
> > > > error. it's all cpu, ram and apache specific I think.
> > > >
> > > > for instance. We have a old perl based mailing list.
> > > > 1 is on a AMD 800 with 512 megs of ram
> > > > 2 is on a amd 450 with 256 megs of ram
> > > >
> > > > when i send a message out to people on server 1 it processes them and
> > > > then later I get the screen saying it's done.
> > > >
> > > > on server 2 with just about the same amount of users, I get a
> > > > internal server error. BUT the server still processes all emails. it
> > > > just takes server 2 tooo long to respond to say, HEY I'm done! it
> > > > just takes to long apache gets annoyed and instead of waiting a few
> > > > more minutes it dumps the error instead of a spash screen when
> > > > completed.
> > > >
> > > > so in this case, it could be it takes the system just a little TOO
> > > > long to find the extra 4 and by that time apache says, something
> > > > broke.. internal server error. this is a... unofficial theory :)
> > > >
> > > > I was going to experiment with this. DB in memory setup
> > > > Database  products MEMORY 1
> > > > but haven't tried it yet. Not sure if it would help speed things up.
> > > >
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