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Re: [mv] Bad system behavior



******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******

At 09:42 AM 6/20/00 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Scott Swanson 
><scott@clotho.com>     ******
>
>We've been having trouble with a Linux server that is running minivend 3. 
>We're not really sure  whether any of the problems have anything to do 
>with minivend per se, however we've observed the following behaviors:
>
>if you do a ps, the entry for minivend has a bunch of blank spaces 
>appended to it. the number of spaces is not consistent. a few days ago it 
>was several dozen, today it is 9 (we restarted minivend in the interim, 
>because the minivend server seemed to have completely hanged).
>
>the http daemon occasionally seems to fail -- last week we discovered all 
>the child processes had died, & no new ones had been spawned. don't know 
>if that has anything to do with minivend or not.

I would take a look at the machines vital statistics.  How's the RAM?  Do 
you have swap space?  I'm not a Linux expert, but it all sounds like 
"symptoms" -- something else is going wrong.


>the minivend server itself seems to spawn a lot more minivends, despite 
>this being a very low load site. does it spawn a daemon for EVERY session?

The number of daemons is adjustable in the minivend.cfg.


>Anyone who has seen ANY hinky systems behavior on Linux w/ Apache w/ 
>minivend systems is cordially invited to chime in with any interesting 
>observations or experiences.
>
>Regards,
>
>Scott Swanson
>Clotho Advanced Media
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