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

[David T. Lewis]

>
> 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
>
> Do you know how much traffic it has?
>

No, I don't know how much traffic we are getting. There is probably some
information in the apache logs and/or the ss/ss.log file, but I have only
cell phone access now so I cannot look at it today.

Dave