Re: Hanging and crashing in BSD-type OSes (Was: Re: [mv] Setting MV session ID from outside of Minivend.)

[Mike Heins <mikeh@minivend.com>]

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Quoting kyle@invisio.com (kyle@invisio.com):
> 
> My $.02
> 
> I have been running MV3.11 on FreeBSD3.1 continuously for nearly
> 6 months now. The site is very busy 8,000+ page views per day and
> MV has never "crashed" or "stopped" on it!

Are you using "SafeSignals No"? My understanding was that helped with
the case of an interrupt during a signal, but not for the case of the
interrupt during the socket read. That stops the main server in its
tracks and should not be affected by SafeSignals.

I might delve way back there and see if I can see what might cause the
difference.

We define "busy" here as 50,000+ parsed MV pages per day, with peak rates
of about 500 per minute. We have had MV servers that ran for 6 months
under that type of load for both Linux and Solaris. The only reason they
didn't run longer was that the machine rebooted. 8-)

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