I noticed a problem on squeaksource.com, with the image size reaching close to 1 GB, and very slow web page display. After terminating some stuck processes from a process browser, I resaved the image and restarted it on dan.box.squeak.org.
There was no loss of data, although if anyone noticed response time problems or other issues in the last few hours, this was likely the cause.
Dave
On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 10:48:31PM -0400, David T. Lewis wrote:
I noticed a problem on squeaksource.com, with the image size reaching close to 1 GB, and very slow web page display. After terminating some stuck processes from a process browser, I resaved the image and restarted it on dan.box.squeak.org.
There was no loss of data, although if anyone noticed response time problems or other issues in the last few hours, this was likely the cause.
Dave
I applied a patch to the squeaksource.com image that I hope will prevent this out of memory condition in the future.
Notes are in the dan.box.squeak.org:~squeaksourcecom/README file, and also in a workspace in the image.
The actual error condtion is a WAEmailErrorPage that fails on attempting to make a network connection, which generated (you guessed it) another WAEmailErrorPage to handle the error.
I do not know the cause of the smtp mail failures, but in no case should such a failure result in a recursive error, so this patch seems to be a reasonable solution for now.
I cannot really test the change, so if squeaksource.com gets locked up again a few weeks from now, you will know that it did not work.
Dave
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