Re: Tux Patch for Linux-2.4.21-rc1

The common factor for hanging tux-servers is probably not logging. I believe
it is how loaded the server is - OR how much disc writing there is. I say
this because I had a server running perfectly for 3 months at aprox 150
hits/s without logging, but when traffic increased the server went bad.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Hodgson" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 4:34 AM
Subject: 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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