Re: Tux Patch for Linux-2.4.21-rc1

On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Simon Brock wrote:

> Regards,
> Simon.
>
> PS Just for the record, we are running TUX from the RH8.0 and are
> logging traffic via tux.  What is the problem with logging?

Several people (myself included) had an issue where TUX would completely
hang a server after a few (1-10) days, yielding it unresponsive other than
to ping.  Finding any common factor between people experiencing the
problem was dubious - in the end the only thing that could be obviously
seen in common was the fact that all the sufferers appeared to have
logging enabled.  For my purposes, despite serving a fairly steady 50-70
hits/s off TUX, logging is essential for checking referrers and popularity
of parts of sites - and thus turning it off wasn't really an option.

The whole subject was covered pretty comprehensively in the thread "random
system crashes", which can be browsed at MARC at
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tux-list&m=103460993003287&w=2 as various
people on the list compared & contrasted their setups (operational and
otherwise) to try to diagnose the problem.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tux-list&m=103472615516863&w=2 was my
chain of thought from wrestling with TUX back in May of last year, fwiw.

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tux-list&m=102260919428123&w=2 is a report
of the problem also from May, back when people thought it might be an
issue with manipulating log files whilst TUX was writing to them.

If anyone ever found a solution i'd be very interested - thttpd is getting
a bit long in the tooth; and there was real elegance in the way TUX passed
things through to the actual webserver.

cheers,

M.

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