RE: [mv] server dying...

[Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>]

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

At 02:22 PM 8/3/00 , you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" 
><ct@arborinternet.com>     ******
>
>I agree, first get a cron script running to restart the server when it dies.
>I run one every minute. Then it is detective work to track down the problem
>if you can. Unfortunately, Minivend just dies sometimes.

That just made me think of something...  aside from restarting the box 
every month or so, my Minivend hasn't died in over a year.   :-)  *knock on 
wood*

Glenn,  search for 'checkstore' or 'grep' or something in the mailing list 
archives, you should find some good tips.



> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Ryan Hertz
> > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 11:59 AM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: Re: [mv] server dying...
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz
> > <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>     ******
> >
> > At 11:22 AM 8/3/00 , you wrote:
> > >******    message to minivend-users from Glenn McCalley
> > ><minivend@mail.bnetmd.net>     ******
> > >
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > >We are finding the minivend server dead - twice now in 24
> > >hours.  Looks like it logs a bunch of hammered sessions (extract
> > >below) and dies.  Assuming death ensues after the last hammered session
> > >message, looks like it was out about 2 hours before we caught it?
> >
> > First, I'd treat the symptoms...  get a script going to restart
> > Minivend.  Then you'd only have a few minutes of downtime, as
> > opposed to a
> > few hours.   :-)
> >
> > Cross check your Apache logs at 10:55:43 and see what was supposed to be
> > running that got hung (hammered PID).  Perhaps there is a
> > page/product that
> > is fouled.
> >
> > Ah, and since you have 3.14-5, I'd check into the newest 3.14-6 with the
> > security patches.  :-)
> >
> >
> > >Thoughts welcome, thanks!
> > >Glenn.
> > >
> > >PII 550, 256MB, plenty of disk,
> > >MV 3.14, apache 1.3.12, FreeBSD 4.0, perl 5.005_03
> > >This catalog is the only thing on this box.  Fairly active site, ~150,000
> > >hits (files served) per day.
> > >
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:00:44 -0400] - - hammered PID 8061 running 301
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:02:01 -0400] - - hammered PID 8118 running 302
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:02:39 -0400] - - hammered PID 8157 running 300
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:06:39 -0400] - - hammered PID 8380 running 300
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:07:08 -0400] - - hammered PID 8399 running 302
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:11:12 -0400] - - hammered PID 8592 running 303
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:13:21 -0400] - - hammered PID 8665 running 300
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:15:35 -0400] - - hammered PID 8789 running 301
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:17:05 -0400] - - hammered PID 8831 running 302
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:18:52 -0400] - - hammered PID 8894 running 301
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:18:57 -0400] - - hammered PID 8897 running 302
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:20:14 -0400] - - hammered PID 8991 running 304
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:11:20:40 -0400] - - hammered PID 9004 running 304
> > >seconds
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - CyberCash module found
> > >(CyberCash 2).
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - CyberCash module found
> > >(CyberCash 3).
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - MiniVend V3.14-5
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - Config '_mv_admin' at
> > server startup
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - Config 'con' at server startup
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:03 -0400] - - Config 'simple' at
> > server startup
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:04 -0400] - - START server (12439)
> > (INET and UNIX)
> > >- - - [03/August/2000:13:30:04 -0400] - - Accepting connections from
> > >localhost|127\.0\.0\.1
> > >
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