Re: Just to give an idea ...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc G. Fournier [mailto:scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org]
> Sent: 06 June 2004 02:26
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: RE: [pgsql-www] Just to give an idea ...
>
> On Sat, 5 Jun 2004, Dave Page wrote:
>
> > So it seems to me that there is something broken in PHP
> causing these
> > load problems that we are only hitting in certain circumstances.
> >
> > BTW, index.php is working just fine right now :-(
>
> 'k, keep an eye on that and see how it runs ... I just
> upgraded PHP on the template to 4.3.7, which:
>
> Fixed a number of crashes inside pgsql, cpdf and gd extensions.
>
> now, granted, the pages have been working, but am curious as
> to whether or not some weren't manifested as crashes, but
> slow downs ...

OK, that's a possibility. Often my Squid proxy reported failed pages as
'zero sized replies' which look like timeouts as it waits for data. I
guess these could easily have been crashes.

> > Don't kill the indexer processes unless absolutely necessary - that
> > can screw the database up. Use
> '/usr/local/aspseek/bin/indexer -E' to
> > safely terminate the running indexers. It can take a little
> while to
> > shut them down...
>
> k, just added a 'shutdown-aspseek' alias to the VM, so that
> its documented
> *somewhere* ;)

Fyi: the rest of the docs are at http://www.aspseek.org/.

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