Re: [mv] Is it normal for minivend to spawn several processes? (a BSD issue?)

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

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I just thought to add to this message that I am using INET sockets with
Minivend. I believe that may be related. I believe I need to use INET
sockets to cooperate with Apache's SuExec system, which is exspecially
particular about permissions.

   -mark


Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>     ******
> 
> Hello! I'm running MV 4.04 on FreeBSD 3.1 and I am having some severe
> performance problems on a basically empty box. Since I generally hear
> that Minivend is very fast, I'm assuming that there is some
> configuration in my environment that is wack. With this project, I'm
> just using Minivend's default flat-file system, so I can take Postgres
> out of the equation here. Just now I was waiting for the 'simple' login
> page to load and it took _several_minutes_. Using 'top' I could see that
> minivend was doing something during that time, but I couldn't tell what.
> Frequently there were 2, 3, and 4 minivend processes running at once.
> Here some captures of that:
> 
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 56565 softskul  29   0  1600K   436K RUN      0:02  3.59%  0.34% top
> 56580 mvend    -18   0 15304K  3064K swread   0:00  0.99%  0.29% perl
> 56572 mvend    -18   0 15304K  5488K swread   0:01  0.24%  0.20% perl
> 56579 mvend    -22   0 15304K  4624K vmpfw    0:00  0.66%  0.20% perl
> 56577 mvend    -18   0 15304K  3664K swread   0:00  0.27%  0.10% perl
>    98 root       2 -12  1040K   164K select  10:55  0.00%  0.00% xntpd
>    91 root       2   0   820K     0K select   1:30  0.00%  0.00% <syslogd>
> 
>  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> 56568 mvend    -18   0 15304K  5668K swread   0:01  0.75%  0.59% perl
> 56575 mvend    -18   0 15304K  1900K swread   0:00  1.40%  0.20% perl
> 56573 softskul   2   0   944K   592K sbwait   0:00  0.81%  0.15% popper
> 56574 mvend    -18   0 15304K  1640K swread   0:00  0.27%  0.05% perl
> 
> In the top grab, Minivend appears to using over 60 Megs of memory!
> (although very little CPU, as was typical). Is this behavior of Minivend
> normal, or should I take this as indicator of what my problem might be?
> 
> Perhaps another FreeBSD user has solved a similar issue?
> 
>    -mark
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