What just happened plz? was it a paperthinserver problem?

so it wasn't just me then. phew

It is a mystery, and it is being investigated today. that's all I now right now, sorry!

ooooooh! (ok, thx!)

http://i19.tinypic.com/632faes.gif

Yes, I don't know yet. There is a sandbox, though... http://www.ilxor.com:8090/ILX/

If your firewall doesn't allow port 8090, you won't be able to see it.

(if indeed I ever work it out)

Well, it wasn't our server at least

  1:37pm  up 154 day(s), 11:29 

Yeah, I could tracert & ping it, but http timed out.

I take it back, it was our problem (on the tomcat side of the church/state line :)

You sussed what it was? Excellent!

Nope... Sorry.

Actually, I think I've figured it now. My fault entirely. I'll fix it, stick it on the sandbox for a bit and then promote it early this evening, as it'll happen again before long, if I don't fix it.

If you're interested, the code keeps a buffer of log messages to do with statistics; how long queries take to run; how long pages take to be generated; cache hit rate and so on, but they've been next to useless, as they all just say that pages took 1ms to process and that the cache hit rate is always 99%, so I figured I would stop it writing to the database, just to save on some space (it's currently got > 200,000 rows on that table).

The buffer is 10,000 in size, and when it hits 10,000, the code does some sums to aggregate the info, and writes about 6 records to the DB. I took this code out, the other day. However, in addition to writing the data to the database, this code also clears the in memory log, which has no bounds on its size (i.e. it relies on the clear out to just not get bigger and bigger). So it basically kept on filling up until it used up all the memory and fell over.

Oh right.

Ha ha!

Well, he convinced me there!

OK, that's the fix for this up now. There are also some changes to search, and some other minor stuff. Normally, I'd like to test this stuff for longer before making it live, but under the circumstances, the fix was required to prevent it falling over again.

I like the new search page. Thanks as usual.