On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, simran wrote: > Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 13:05:42 +1000 > From: simran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: David Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cees Hek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Daniel Tosolini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Mod_Perl server can't locate modules that exist... > > Hi All, > > After a few more errors, i think we might have found out what the > problem was... > > We have about 500 virtual sites being run on the server... each one of > them had its own access and error logs... and we had started running > into a "too many open files" problem... i have removed "separate > logging" from many of the virtual sites... (just logging to a central > spot now)... things seem to be better.... :-) You need to increase the number of file descriptors using ulimit before you configure apache. Alternatively, define it in /etc/sysctl.conf . Regards, Jie > simran. > > On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 11:46, simran wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have recently started having a few issues on our > > mod_perl/apache server. > > > > Software that has been functioning fine has suddenly > > randomly started giving errors like: > > > > ======================================================== > > Error: 'newsletter' could not be loaded... (Can't locate > > object method "new" via package > > "NetChant::Component::Newsletter::Main" at > > /opt/netchant/lib/NetChant/Component/Base.pm line 832. ): > > Could not load component: Can't locate File/Temp.pm in > > @INC (@INC contains: ... [.. snip very long list ..] > > ======================================================== > > > > We have noticed this error about half a dozen times > > in the past day, and stopping the server and starting > > it again (a full stop/start) *always* fixes the problem. > > > > In the above case, it was saying it could not find > > File/Temp.pm ... however, the module it can't find > > varies from time to time... > > > > We do have a lot of modules being loaded into memory > > (which i assume mod_perl is caching in memory)... we > > do have 3gigs of memory on the machine, only 2gigs of > > which are usually being used (even when we get > > the errors). Other parts of the software still work > > fine... only certain parts give errors like the > > above (and they keep consistently giving the error > > until the server is restarted, at which point they > > start to function perfectly again). > > > > Given the above, i'm thinking that its a memory cache > > issue? > > > > Has any experience anything like the above? > > Any hints on how to either debug the problem further > > or solve the problem (if its a known issue) would > > be greatly appreciated. > > > > simran. > > > > =========================================================== > > > > Server information is: Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) > > mod_ssl/2.8.14 > > OpenSSL/0.9.6c > > DAV/1.0.3 > > mod_perl/1.28 > > Perl information is : > > Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: > > Platform: > > osname=linux, osvers=2.4.21, archname=i686-linux > > uname='linux ogre 2.4.21 #1 smp thu aug 7 15:00:49 est 2003 i686 unknown ' > > config_args='' > > hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define > > usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef > > useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef > > use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef > > usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef > > Compiler: > > cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include > > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', > > optimize='-O3', > > cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' > > ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)', gccosandvers='' > > intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 > > d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 > > ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 > > alignbytes=4, prototype=define > > Linker and Libraries: > > ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' > > libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib > > libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil > > perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lutil > > libc=/lib/libc-2.2.5.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a > > gnulibc_version='2.2.5' > > Dynamic Linking: > > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' > > cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' > > > > > > Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): > > Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES > > Built under linux > > Compiled at Aug 14 2003 16:40:19 > > %ENV: > > PERL5LIB="/opt/netchant/lib" > > @INC: > > /opt/netchant/lib > > /usr/local/netchant_perl/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux > > /usr/local/netchant_perl/lib/5.8.0 > > /usr/local/netchant_perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux > > /usr/local/netchant_perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 > > /usr/local/netchant_perl/lib/site_perl > > . > > > > -- > Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ > Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html > List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html > > -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
