[Box-Admins] Re: squeaksource.com image update (was: Does source.squeak.org have the socket leak problem?)

[David T. Lewis]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 05:34:11PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
> 
> The new squeaksource image seems to be running well. It is too early to say
> for sure, but the runaway socket leaks that I saw in the old image do not
> appear to be occurring in the new image. There is however one socket leak
> that I have found to be associated with the VNC server. This apparently
> leaves one open file descriptor when a client closes its connection (BYW,
> this is the first time I've really had occasion to use Ian's RFBServer, it
> is really quite amazing). This does not directly impact squeaksource.com
> stability so I'm not going to worry about it for now.

To follow up - the new squeaksource.com image has continued to run without
problems since I wrote the above. I intentionally restarted it two days ago
(testing signal handlers for SIGHUP and SIGTERM based on suggestion from
Chris), but otherwise it has run reliably and no manual intervention has
been needed.

The socket leak problem is resolved, aside from the minor VNC bug mentioned
above, and there has been no recurrence of the unexplained system overload
that had occurred one time with the old image.

I still need to set up squeaksource.com under daemontools (tips or examples
from source.squeak.org welcome, I've never done it before). Once that is
done, I expect that the squeaksource.com image can run indefinitely with
little or no manual intervention.

Dave