[ic] Interchange crashing

[Jason Kohles]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 04:17:28PM -0400, Tim Mirecki wrote:
> Excellent! Ok my next question is what can I do in the meantime while I am
> waiting for a fix? What changes can be made in order to prevent this from
> happening?
> 
The easist thing to do in the meantime would be to turn on pre-fork.


> Thanks Mike!
> 
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@developer.akopia.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@developer.akopia.com]On Behalf Of Mike Heins
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 4:01 PM
> To: interchange-users@developer.akopia.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Interchange crashing
> 
> Quoting Rene Hertell (rene@hertell.com):
> > > Ok, set both of those, restarted Interchange and I can still crash it.
> >
> > Have you checked how many IC processes are running when you "crash" your
> IC?
> >
> > I got a few times the same problems that IC did not respond. After a
> ps -aux
> > |grep interchange there was up to IC 10 processes running. After killing
> them
> > and restarting IC everything seemed to work fine...
> >
> 
> Bug confirmed, but not yet fixed.
> 
> The problem is an apparent deadlock in the housekeeping routines
> that keep track of the number of servers. Only happens if you get
> MaxServer or more accesses in HouseKeeping or less seconds, and
> doesn't affect pre-fork mode (which is why we haven't seen a crash
> on any production sites which are all using pre-fork).
> 
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