[ic] Re: ALERT: bad pipe signal received for /page.html

[Music]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin Walsh" <kevin at cursor.biz>
To: <interchange-users at icdevgroup.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] Re: ALERT: bad pipe signal received for /page.html


> "Music" <music at labyrinth.net.au> wrote:
>> ifdef TRAFFIC =~ /rpc/i
>> Message RPC traffic settings.
>> PreFork             Yes
>> StartServers        5
>> MaxServers          0
>> MaxRequestsPerChild 100
>> HouseKeeping        2
>> PIDcheck            120
>> ChildLife 30 minutes
>> endif
>>
>> I also tried disabling ChildLife and PreFork and increasing start 
>> servers.
>>
>> All with no joy.
>>
>> 'Applying Changes' to one catalogue puts the Interchange daemon into 
>> faulty
>> state.
>>
>> No errors are displayed in IC error.log, catalog error.log nor apache 
>> error
>> logs.
>>
>> Just thought I would document this on the list to see if any feedback 
>> etc.
>>
> Just as an experiment, could you reduce the ChildLife to 60 (1 minute),
> restart Interchange and reproduce the problem.  I suspect that the problem
> will clear itself within one minute.

Yes, spot on. The problem pages disappeared after the 60 seconds!

>
> If that happens then we know that the problem is probably in Interchange
> itself, rather than than in Interchange::Link.

Not using Interchange:Link on this server - just regular tlink CGI running 
in Inet Mode.

>
> The thinking is that the "apply changes" (or whatever), causes one of
> the Interchange children to throw its toys out of its pram.  The constant
> refreshes then causes the naughty child to receive a request every now
> and again, resulting in a moody page.
>
> One thing that may debunk my theory is your assertion that the problem
> still occurs when PreFork is switched off.  Can you check that again
> for me.

Testing with Pre-Fork - Oh dear - it appears Pre-For is the problem.
I commented out Pre-Fork and ChildLife and the server is running very 
nicely.
I can't reporduce the problem. Now I have to try and remember why I added 
Pre-Fork and ChildLife; I hope it is not too dramatic a jolt!

I have dropped the PERL_SIGNALS=unsafe in restart command now also and all 
is running well.

>
> I'm afraid I don't have an Interchange::Link setup to play with.  If
> someone wants to allow me some time on their machine, and a guaranteed
> way to reproduce the problem, I'm sure I could track it down reasonably
> quickly.

You are more than welcome to test our Apache 2 setup however as I say not 
using Interchange:Link on this one as it doesn't play with the version of 
mod_perl (1.99_09-10.ent) available for centos3.

>There's never been any demand for mod_interchange on Apache 2.x

There is from some of us!! :-)