Maurice Janssen wrote:
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.
So far 5x it's always happen with PERL kicking in and starting the load.
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.
This is AMD64 and the RAM, I already replaced it 4 days ago to be sure
with brand new one out of the box that I order last week.
