[Dxspider-support] Large user_asc.* files?

[Saul B. Dinman]

Version 1.51 build 57.135 under Win ME
While on the subject of user_asc.* files, has anyone noticed a problem with
garbage sneaking into the NN.DAT files during an EXPORT? I periodically use
the sh/log [call] to check the uptime of our feeder node and its alternate
and periodically I notice the sh/log function will spew out garbage
characters, somehow changing the character set used by telnet, and from then
on telnet is using some strange new character set that does not reproduce
all of the keyboard strokes (some, but not all). When I investigate the
problem in the log file I always find one or more errors indicated during an
export. For example I had 2 such transactions in my 01.dat log, one of which
looked like this:

1042934478^DXCommand^Export Error1: Ú4“Á¿Új 

----- and a lot more which won't display in this ASCII editor, some of which
is readable, most not. Some of the lines are over 1K characters in length.
In any event it amounts to a lot of characters. Sometimes it will run for
almost a month without producing the trashed entry, but it always occurs at
least once, sometimes twice in a month. I simply fix them by shutting down
the cluster and editing the file to remove the garbage entries. Now that
I've studied the entries, it looks like it actually is happening regularly
every time a DXCOMMAND Export is performed because after editing, I don't
see any more of them in there anywhere. That always gets the log going again
properly, but it would be nice to know what's that all about and get rid of
it. 

I haven't seen anything as large as the 1 GB plus user_asc files mentioned
by Renee, but since those files seem to contain the results of all these
exports, who knows maybe that trash adds up quicker than I thought.

Saul, K1BI
K1RK Node in Falmouth, MA

-----Original Message-----
From: dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org
[mailto:dxspider-support-admin at dxcluster.org] On Behalf Of Rene Olsen
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:36 AM
To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
Subject: Re: [Dxspider-support] Large user_asc.* files?


Hi Henk.

> I noticed that diskspace had disappeared of the cluster machine. Every 
> sundaymorning at 00:05Z the user file is exported to user_asc. Old 
> copies are archived as well. I assume there is a reason for the 
> export, but this gives me 2 problems.
> 
> - The exported files are >1GB, which in my case, with a 4GB harddisk I 
> have a problem within 2 weeks. - During the export the cluster stops, 
> and resumes after the export, only the export takes a couple of hours.

If the files is larger than 1GB there is really something wrong. Just
checked my files and 
my users.v2 is a little over 6MB and the user_asc files are about 3,5MB. I
had the same 
problem as you at one point. My file got about 700MB big. The way I solved
it was to 
use one of the older user_asc.o*** files and importet that into spider. Then
all was fine 
again.

It is described in one of the FAQ files how to do that.

If all your user_asc.* files are >1GB I don't know how to clean it up. I am
sure that Dirk 
can give you a hint on that.

Vy 73 de Rene / OZ1LQH



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