Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Outdated XML libraries?

14: Re: Outdated XML libraries? (response to 1)

Posted by Tom Jackson on 03/07/03 09:19 PM

Jamie,

It used to be the case that when I used daemontools 'svc -t /service/name', a schedule proc would hang, the server would stop except for about 4 threads. When I used 'svc -k /service/name', the server would immediately restart.

Is this what Don is concerned will prevent his 'fantasy'? Or maybe it is the modules not being in one sf location. I was wondering could the missing modules be replaced with a simple makefile that would wget the required module, or maybe just print a message of where to look? Scott G. has some makefile code to generate a tagged release, maybe that is close to what is needed?

15: Re: Outdated XML libraries? (response to 14)

Posted by Jeff Davis on 03/07/03 10:21 PM

Tom, what we want to do is be able to get back on the head of aolserver for OpenACS and to my mind (and to others I think), not shutting down cleanly on sigterm is a showstopper. The issue I have with it is that when the machine shuts down if aolserver hangs this way then oracle does not shut down either (until the badly behaved things are delivered thier sigkills -- which I think means a sigkill for oracle as well). kill -9 on your db server is not necessarily a great idea.

If it's possible to have aolserver release all the db handles first or something like that so oracle can shut down I would consider it an unfortunate bug but not a show stopper.