New Message: Frontier chrashing up to 100 times an hour

[Lawrence Lee]

Hi Brad,

Can you visit one of your Manila sites and add /robots.txt to the URL and
see if that causes your server to crash.

Lawrence 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: frontier-users-admin at userland.com 
> [mailto:frontier-users-admin at userland.com] On Behalf Of Brad Marsh
> Sent: August 4, 2003 10:24 AM
> To: Frontier List
> Subject: Re: New Message: Frontier chrashing up to 100 times an hour
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have had this same problem. For a while, I thought I had it 
> licked. I used to have a static server (Apache, running on 
> port 80 on a different machine) serve my .js and .css files. 
> When I changed it to run on port 90 of the same machine (and 
> changed all my pages to ask for it there), Frontier suddenly 
> stopped crashing.
> 
> Then, starting July 17, I added some other components to the 
> web site (which did not change how these files were served), 
> and Frontier started crashing again. I have since changed it 
> so that all .js and .css files are served by Frontier from an 
> "include" table (a subtable of the main Manila site), but 
> this has not slowed down the crashes.
> 
> Another symptom I've noticed is that the 
> system.temp.pageTableAddresses fills up with entries - like, 
> up to 60 or 70 - that stay there until Frontier crashes. It's 
> like Frontier is holding on to the pages and never finishing 
> the processing.
> 
> I have not noticed RAM or CPU usage increase radically (I 
> have a dual CPU machine with 1GB of RAM). CPU usage typically 
> runs at 8% (first CPU, less for the second), and I usually 
> have ~650MB physical memory available. We're averaging ~150k 
> hits per month.
> 
> I just throwing this out as a data point...maybe it will help 
> light the lightbulb for one of you gurus. Pleeeeeeeze.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brad Marsh
> 
> On 8/4/03 10:07 AM, "webmaster at userland.com" 
> <webmaster at userland.com> wrote:
> 
> > A new message was posted:
> > 
> > Address: http://manila.userland.com/discuss/msgReader$164
> > 
> > By: Tom Fuerstner (tom at fuerstner.at)
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > i'm completely frustrated. some days ago frontier started to crash 
> > several times a day. now it doesn't stop crashing any more.
> > 
> > we use a simple script to restart frontier automatically 
> but this is 
> > just a work-around.
> > 
> > we are also serving our pictures from a different machine 
> and we have 
> > already replaced all root-files, guest-databases and son on 
> with backup-files.
> > 
> > i also stopped every possible threaded service and stopped every 
> > service we didn't need.
> > 
> > so finally i ran out of ideas.
> > 
> > we run manila version 9.1b3 on a dedicated windows 2000 
> machine as our 
> > cms-server. the crash logs of dr. watson tell me that it's 
> obvioulsy 
> > the same error andre radke believed to have solved by 
> turning off the 
> > radioCommunityServer. but... we've never activated this 
> functionality.
> > 
> > the problem is even worse because we are serving manila website to 
> > paying customers who are starting to be obset.
> > 
> > i consider this a dramatic failure because it's impossible for a 
> > single developer outside of userland as a company to solve 
> this kind of problems.
> > 
> > so, help is more than appreciated !!!
> > 
> > - Thomas Fuerstner
> > 
> > This is a Manila site.. http://manila.userland.com/.
> > 
> > 
> 
>