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

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 2013-10-17, at 14:56, "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:

> 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

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