Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace memory issue

2012-02-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
fixed several of the memory leaks. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 09/02/2012 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (93

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tools for automatic creation of dublin core and contents

2011-08-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
write back to the files. Not, it doesn't. It just makes it easier to generate the DSpace batch importer format. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 10/08/2011 : The Moon is Wa

Re: [Dspace-tech] Tools for automatic creation of dublin core and contents

2011-08-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
way to help with your problem. http://tools.dspace.cam.ac.uk/metadatamapper/ Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 10/08/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (75% of Full) ---

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace Installation on Ubuntu

2011-08-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, bonface asiligwa wrote: I have been  trying to instaation of  dspace on ubuntu 11.04 but i dont succed can someone just give a step by step installation of  Dspace 7.1.2 https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Installing+DSpace+1.7+on+Ubuntu -- Tom De Mulder

Re: [Dspace-tech] SSL and HTTPS Question

2011-08-01 Thread Tom De Mulder
at over HTTPS, so it's better to run it over plain HTTP until people log in. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 01/08/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (9% of Full)

[Dspace-tech] Hiding dark items

2011-07-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
gards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 29/07/2011 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (14% of Full) -- Got Input? Slashd

[Dspace-tech] Custom thumbnail code

2011-06-17 Thread Tom De Mulder
to have. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 17/06/2011 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full) -- EditLive Enterprise

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
changes would be needed to the actual browse system. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 10/05/2011 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (46% of Full) --

Re: [Dspace-tech] Embargo and OAI interface

2011-05-10 Thread Tom De Mulder
t available, so shouldn't show up) We've put considerable work in filtering dark items from search results (which took a lot of work, and yet was still a dirty hack) and OAI. It would be nice to see this functionality in the main code base. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
Dear all, I'm attaching a dump of our PostgreSQL configuration to this email. We got some input from Postgres developers into how best to tune for our needs, but if someone has suggestions for things to try then we'd be happy to hear them. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder -

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-08 Thread Tom De Mulder
oost for browse-related functions. It also offers another way > of scaling-out, by putting solr on a different server. This question I'll have to leave to Simon to answer, so I don't make a hash of it.

Re: [Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-07 Thread Tom De Mulder
university search engine and similar services to throttle their index rate so the servers wouldn't get overloaded. Also of note is that the problems are mostly on the database and webapp end, there are no problems with I/O (disk or network). -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Comput

[Dspace-tech] Scalability issues report, dsp...@cambridge

2010-10-07 Thread Tom De Mulder
DSpace scalability issues report, per wiki template: 1. dsp...@cambridge, The University of Cambridge, UK. Technical contacts: Tom De Mulder, td...@cam.ac.uk (systems manager) Simon Brown st...@cam.ac.uk (DSpace developer) 2. a. DSpace version 1.6.2 with extensive local patches, using

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-10-06 Thread Tom De Mulder
e time for this. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
e? We have other systems here at the University that are much bigger, do similar things and require far, far less in terms of resources. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Sit

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
Tansley wanted to try writing a project in Java, but I could be wrong. :) Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
t I'm not a specialist on this matter, and our resident DSpace developer is on leave this week.) I am really glad to hear from other people with problems similar to ours. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-29 Thread Tom De Mulder
f memory and crashed really quickly, so we never took it into production. But your mileage may vary. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH --

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-23 Thread Tom De Mulder
ndom metadata for them. After all, it doesn't matter that many bitstreams will be identical. That is how we populated our test environment here so we could replicate the problems we were seeing on the live system. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-22 Thread Tom De Mulder
, deleting a collection with 1200 items on our rather powerful DSpace machines will take two hours, and uses most of the available memory. You can see why I would like that no longer to be the case. Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New

Re: [Dspace-tech] tomcat reporting memory leak?

2010-09-20 Thread Tom De Mulder
memory leak. There are quite a few memory leaks in DSpace. We have a cronjob to restart Tomcat nightly, because otherwise it'll break the next day. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -&

Re: [Dspace-tech] Meatadata dates stored as UTC

2010-06-25 Thread Tom De Mulder
e, can anyone help >? They're stored in Zulu time, which has the advantage of not being dependent on time zones or daylight savings. The best thing to do is to store them in this timezone, but to convert them on display to the local time. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge Universi

Re: [Dspace-tech] Bad robot! Googlebot and Internal Server Errors

2010-02-11 Thread Tom De Mulder
or rather, consensus) has this to say about disallow fields in robot.txt: "The value of this field specifies a partial URL that is not to be visited. This can be a full path, or a partial path; any URL that starts with this value will not be retrieved." Note the "starts wi

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace and https

2010-02-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
t; corresponds to the SSL cipher suites which are enabled. Have you tried following the SSL Howto? It may address your problem: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/ssl-howto.html Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site,

[Dspace-tech] DSpace batch ingest scalability and performance

2010-01-19 Thread Tom De Mulder
- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 19/01/2010 : The Moon is Waxing Crescent (24% of Full) -- Throughout its 18-year hist

Re: [Dspace-tech] Handle Server Not Running

2010-01-11 Thread Tom De Mulder
I think your handle server may indeed not be running at all. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 11/01/2010 : The Moon is Wanin

[Dspace-tech] Zotero

2009-12-09 Thread Tom De Mulder
/ Thanks, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service -> 09/12/2009 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (52% of Full) -- Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.n

[Dspace-tech] Batch importer spreadsheet metadata mapping tool

2009-09-18 Thread Tom De Mulder
/metadatamapper/ Best regards, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 18/09/2009 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (7% of F

Re: [Dspace-tech] Why the DSpace checksum checker?

2009-04-17 Thread Tom De Mulder
ver, this is easily done outside the webapp. -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 17/04/2009 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (54% of Full) --

Re: [Dspace-tech] Performance issues with bitstream checker

2009-04-16 Thread Tom De Mulder
aken this approach with other things as well, such as our thumbnails (which aren't using the DSpace code, because we wanted to separate something as user-interface-centric as that from the actual archive contents; the DSpace code was also just too slow and just crashed our server). Bes

Re: [Dspace-tech] Backup procedure

2009-02-20 Thread Tom De Mulder
n't have to reinstall all of the web frontend. How that's done is something that depends on your Fedora installation, and I can't give you specifics. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridg

Re: [Dspace-tech] Backup procedure

2009-02-20 Thread Tom De Mulder
in almost all cases. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 20/02/2009 : The Moon is Waning Crescent (38% of Full) -- O

Re: [Dspace-tech] Speed problem in postgres during batch ingesting

2009-01-27 Thread Tom De Mulder
ith file locking where deleted filehandles don't get recovered properly. best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 2

Re: [Dspace-tech] Google bots and web crawlers

2009-01-14 Thread Tom De Mulder
ut not item or bitstreams, and still get indexed. DSpace 1.x has major scalability issues, alas. No matter how much hardware you throw at it. Best, -- Tom De Mulder - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 14/01/2009

Re: [Dspace-tech] Issues with DSpace 1.5.1

2008-10-06 Thread Tom De Mulder
worked. Sorry not to be able to give you a solution, but there's an explicit check in the code that only lets admins change bitstreams. This same problem is causing us a lot of trouble, too. Best, -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge University Computing Service -> 0

Re: [Dspace-tech] Adding and removing bitstreams

2008-09-23 Thread Tom De Mulder
our users are really fed up with this, but it's such a mess to sort out properly. -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge University Computing Service -> 23/09/2008 : The Moon is Waning Gibbous (53% of Full) --

Re: [Dspace-tech] View but not saveable

2008-04-16 Thread Tom De Mulder
big (non-transparent) watermarks all over the images or documents. Which of course might render them useless. -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH -> 16/04/2008 : The Moon i

Re: [Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Tom De Mulder
cope with Shibboleth and our local single signon system... I was just hoping that 1.5 would get us started further along that route. :-) Thanks for the response, -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 31843 - New Museums Site, Pembroke Street

[Dspace-tech] DSpace 1.5 beta 1

2008-02-15 Thread Tom De Mulder
authz problems occur; it would be better if everything used the ResourcePolicy rather than the columns on the collection table. Any reason why they can't be dropped for this release? Best, -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge University Computing Service +44 1223 3 318

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 2.0 release timeline [Scalability / Performance Revisited]

2007-01-22 Thread Tom De Mulder
86731 files and directories in our assetstore, and it takes O(hours) just to build the filesystem tree. Dump isn't always an option - not every filesystem has dump, and we run different filesystems on backup and live servers anyway. -- Tom De Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Cambridge Unive

Re: [Dspace-tech] Dspace 2.0 release timeline [Scalability / Performance Revisited]

2007-01-17 Thread Tom De Mulder
erformance-related issues, such as they exist. My current concerns lie far more with the authentication/authorization system... For reference, our webapp runs on a dual, dual-core CPU machine with 8GB of memory, with the database on a separate (similar, but with very fast disk) machine. The a