Re: [Pound Mailing List] Pound hanging constantly

Did you look at your Threads setting too?

I'm not sure abount Pound 2.7, but I think
the 2.6 version uses a pool of a fixed
number of threads, based on your configuration;
the default value could be too low for
your increased load.

                               Andrea


On 02/20/2016 03:05 PM, Drew Green, MCSE, CEH wrote:
> For the past month or two I've been dealing with an issue where pound
> will randomly hang for several minutes, and then eventually correct
> itself. Manually restarting the process will also correct this. I think
> it has to do with the load on the server. We increased the load in the
> time frame mentioned, though not by anything unreasonable. I spun up a
> new VM and tried both the custom PCI version from github as well as the
> latest stable 2.7 release, but both have the same issue. We were running
> several sites plus Exchange OWA/ActiveSync/Outlook Anywhere on the
> system, but as of Thursday are only running Exchange services, and the
> problem persists. Exchange services are where the increased load came
> from as we are now running 20 or so laptops through Outlook Anywhere
> constantly, as opposed to maybe half that before. I tried increasing the
> number of files open allowed, per a mailing list thread from some time
> back, but it's still having the issue. I am monitoring it with a script
> I wrote to check for availability, which will email me and restart the
> service if it's down. Everything was fine from last evening until around
> 8 this morning, when people started working again, so it seems it's
> connected to the Outlook Anywhere connections, since that's what would
> have started around that time this morning. ActiveSync runs 24/7, so if
> that was the problem it shouldn't have stopped hanging during the
> off-hours. I don't see anything in the logs that appears to be helpful,
> so I'm hoping someone here can suggest a debug log setting or a fix, or
> anything. Log level is currently set to 2. Is there a way to get more
> information than that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew Green
>
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