[ic] Perl 5.8.0 + Interchange Clustering locking issues

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sat Jul 27 17:16:01 2002


At 10:28 PM 7/27/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Dan Browning wrote:
>>For fun, I was testing Perl 5.8.0 (default build options) on our 
>>Interchange cluster and found some file locking problems.  We'll be 
>>sticking with 5.6.1 for now, but I wanted to warn those who run clusters 
>>just in case they try it:
>>x.x.x.x - - [27/July/2002:12:10:03 -0700] www11 
>>/cgi-bin/template/index.html Runtime error: Could not lock file:
>>Interrupted system call
>>It occurs even under very light loads, with MySQL sessions, and 
>>everything else shared over NFS3 (fcntl locks).  Perhaps it will be fixed 
>>in Perl 5.8.1...
>
>It this happens with TRAFFIC = low or high? Did you get such message with 
>TRAFFIC = rpc too?
>
>Joachim

Yes, I did get the error with high & rpc (even with MaxServers 0).

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