[Dxspider-support] Cluster hangs

Kelly Jones kelly at dxcentral.com
Sun Mar 6 00:18:18 GMT 2005


Hi Klaus,

Good to see I'm not alone.  So this problems must not be specific to my node.

Anybody else seeing this?  Or ideas how to fix it?

I should mention my node is running on Mandrake 10.1 w/Perl 5.8.5.  Box is 
P3 1ghz with 1g of RAM, so that should be plenty of horses.

Kelly - N0VD



>Kelly,
>noticed same thing here. I nearly reset the PC. It did clear up by itself
>after about 10 minutes. Never experienced that before.
>(build 59.347)
>
>73, Klaus
>
>
>--
>mailto:dj6rx at web.de


> > Hi guys,
>
> > I seem to have an issue somewhere.  For whatever reason, DX Spider just
> > seems to 'hang' for no apparent reason.  I noticed this during the ARRL CW
> > contest a couple of weeks ago and it appears to be doing it again during
> > the phone contest.
>
> > If I try to enter any command or even a simple carriage return, I get no
> > response on the screen.  If I try to telnet in, I am connected, but never
> > greeted with the 'welcome' message.
>
> > If I let the cluster continue to run, eventually (anywhere from 10 to 30
> > minutes later) it will 'break loose' and spew the last x minutes of data to
> > the screen all at once.  Once this happens the cluster appears to hang once
> > again and we repeat the symptoms as above.
>
> > If it tail the .dat file in the /spider/data/debug/2005/xxx.dat, there is
> > no activity being written to this file when the cluster is
> > 'hung'.  However, once it 'lets go', all of the activity is written at 
> once.
>
> > The only way to 'reset' the cluster is to restart it.  Once a restart
> > happens, it's good for a while at which time it eventually hangs again.
>
> > If I run a 'top', there appears to be almost 0 cluster activity and the box
> > is running at 99% idle.  Currently running v1.51 build 58.323.
>
> > I never had this problem with the old cluster which was running code base
> > from about two years ago, but for whatever reason this new box isn't
> > performing very well.
>
> > Any ideas what could be causing my 'hang'?
>
> > 73
> > Kelly - N0VD




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