On Monday, May 7, 2007 at 03:11:41 -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: >Every time, I process the logs with webalizer, no problem what so ever. >Then a few customers wants the awstats version. So, I process that as >well, however it's also processing multiple logs, but when the awstats >PERL stuff kicks in, it does get the resources to the roof and badly so, >that so far it had the impact of freezing the server as a results of this. > >Now, why PERL would do this, I have no clue, but it does anyway in the >usage done by awstats. > >So far I reproduce this 5 times, so it's pretty consistent. > >What may cause this, I do not know more, but look like when PERL needs >to process huge amount of data, it end up affecting the server in ways >to make it crash/freeze.
I don't think that Perl is the problem. Other programs would probably also be able to crash the machine, if the load is high enough. It could be a bug in the sparc64 port or bad RAM or some other hardware related problem. I've seen some strange behaviour [1] with sparc64 as well, but I'm not sure wether this is due to a bug. >No,w that I was able to isolate the cause I will proceed the upgrades to >4.0 as I still don't have my CD for 4.1 yet, so I can't do that. It was You can use the 4.1-release from the FTP-servers (or even 4.1-stable from ftp://ftp.su.se/pub/mirrors/openbsd_stable/ ). Maurice [1] 'make build' fails somewhere in gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ with missing header files when /usr/obj is NFS-mounted. It works fine when /usr/obj is on a local FS.
