1.74.5. I will upgrade when I can reproduce the problem locally.
On Jan 17, 5:13 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote: > How old web2py? We have had bugs in the past that may cause your > problem. > You should try upgrade. > > Massimo > > On Jan 17, 6:58 pm, Michael Toomim <too...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > The problem for me is that this occurs on a webapp used by mechanical > > turk, and it fails when I have hundreds of mechanical turkers using my > > app... which only happens when I pay them hundreds of dollars. So > > it's hard to reproduce right now without hundreds of dollars. > > > I am excited to try using VP's ab benchmark to try to reproduce the > > error more cheaply. When I can do that, and get a minimal system > > exhibiting the error, I will let you know. > > > I'm also currently using an older version of web2py. One pre-DAL. > > > On Jan 17, 12:20 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > You should really have > > > > db = DAL('postgres://name:password@localhost:5432/db',pool_size=20) > > > > The reason is that client-server databases may set a max to number of > > > open connections and it takes time to perform the 3-way handshake to > > > establish a new connection at every http request. Without pooling you > > > may hit the max sooner than you should. > > > > This will also make your app faster. > > > > Massimo > > > > On Jan 17, 1:39 pm, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Here it is with private information replaced with generic information. > > > > > if request.env.web2py_runtime_gae: # if running on Google > > > > App Engine > > > > db = DAL('gae') # connect to Google > > > > BigTable > > > > session.connect(request, response, db = db) # and store sessions > > > > and tickets there > > > > else: # else use a normal > > > > relational database > > > > db = DAL('postgres://name:password@localhost:5432/db') > > > > # db = DAL('sqlite://storage.sqlite') > > > > > On Jan 17, 1:19 pm, Massimo Di Pierro <massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Are you using connection pooling? Can I see the line db = DAL(...)? > > > > > > On Jan 16, 2:24 pm, VP <vtp2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Kenneth (see post above) had the same problem with MySQL. > > > > > > > On Jan 16, 3:55 am, ron_m <ron.mco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Is there any chance to try another server based database such as > > > > > > > MySQL. > > > > > > > Since SQLite did not exhibit a problem that is a valid data point > > > > > > > but it is > > > > > > > an embedded database so called directly by the web2py server code > > > > > > > instead of > > > > > > > using a driver. There is a possibility there is a problem with > > > > > > > the driver on > > > > > > > PostgreSQL if the connections are being reused in a pool. This is > > > > > > > very > > > > > > > difficult to find without some further logging. I gather the page > > > > > > > request > > > > > > > you see failing as a user simply never completes. I saw this once > > > > > > > while > > > > > > > testing the application but the loading is only myself running > > > > > > > tests. I use > > > > > > > PostgreSQL in this app but I also have a version that runs on > > > > > > > MySQL which > > > > > > > has only a connection string difference plus the content of the > > > > > > > databases > > > > > > > directory. Maybe I can try this tomorrow, it is almost 2 am here > > > > > > > so I don't > > > > > > > want to start something new right now. I just need to learn how > > > > > > > to use ab > > > > > > > which I take it isn't going to be much to figure out.