[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] squeaksource down?

[Chris Muller]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 5:59 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:06:20PM +0100, Levente Uzonyi wrote:
>> The problem was that an error occured, so Seaside was trying to send an
>> email about it. But generating the stack trace for the email resulted in
>> another error. This recursively triggered another attempt to create an
>> email. The runaway process consumed 850MB of memory, and did not trigger
>> the low space watcher, probably because it was a low priority (30) process
>> (probably a Seaside request handler).
>> Someone who's more familiar with Seaside should fix this issue. There may
>> even be a patch for this in the official repository.
>>
>> To fix the problem, I downloaded the image, terminated the runaway
>> process, saved it as a new version, and uploaded it. Then I stopped the
>> service, modified it to use the new image, and restarted it.
> ... snip ...
> I am downloading the big squeaksource.3 image and I'll look and see if
> I can spot anything more about the cause (but I am not a Seaside expert

Hi Dave, I encountered this problem with the squeaksource code October
of 2013, when I was doing the Magma-backed source.squeak.org:

   http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/box-admins/2013-October/001544.html

and fixed it in the versions at:

  http://source.squeak.org/ss

After that, you had saved squeaksource.com from oblivion, but did not
(IIRC) incorporate the fixes and improvements I had made to the SS
code in trunk.  I _really think_ you should consider merging those
versions into the version that runs SqueakSource.com -- as there are
other fixes and improvements besidse this one.