----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Redmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:00 AM Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] php + aolserver (is it stable?)
> It works fine almost all the time. I originally had this setup because > we were using the same server (we only had one!) to try out openacs and > to serve webmail, for which we were using SquirrelMail (written in PHP). > Sometimes threads would hang -- it seemed that if users had inboxes with > too many (i.e. thousands) of messages, php would time out, as its > designed to do, but the aolserver thread wouldn't die, and enough hung > threads would hang (but not crash) aolserver. It was nothing too > terrible, so we just set a cron job to periodically restart the server > to clear all the threads out before they got to that critical level. > > When we upgraded to RedHat 6.2 to 7.2, something in the webmail script > that displayed the contents of the inbox consistently crashed aolserver. > I've never been able to track it down, nor have I seen the problem with > anything else. You can look at the bug > (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=14365) if you are interested. > Now we have more servers so we use apache for webmail and aolserver for > everything else (though no PHP except for webmail). > > So I wouldn't recommend it, and there certainly isn't any benefit, but > if you have to use it, it will probably work. Unless it's SquirrelMail > on a RedHat 7.* box -- that definitely will not work! > Or a couple different forum packages.. they do the same thing.. takes AS down hard and fast.. really annoying. I am experimenting with PHP on Aolserver though simply due to the support by DreamWeaver MX via the phrakt extension for easy and rapid development of database applications. -- Patrick Spence <arivenATarivenDOTcom> www.RandomRamblings.com www.Ariven.com
