[Dxspider-support] Daily user disconnections

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Oops... I lied.  I actually DO have that in that crontab.

Interested in hearing more about what folks find.

Mike, WA9PIE

On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 6:39 PM, Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
wrote:

> I don't have that line in my crontab... but I still have frequent user
> disconnections.  I haven't yet figured it out.
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 4:47 PM, ei6iz.Brendan Minish <
> ei6iz.brendan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's been bugging me for a while that ei7mre seems to kick off users
>> every day, despite the cluster remaining running
>> Today I did a bit of digging and this seems to coincide exactly with the
>> cronjob that  is run by the system  from
>> cmd/crontab at 3AM
>> the offending entry appears to be
>>
>> 0 3 * * * Spot::daily()
>>
>> is this because the job called is taking too long and it's in the main
>> thread? or do I have a problem elsewhere I should be investigating?
>> Do I risk really messing things up if I change the schedule of this job
>> to run at a time when I might be awake, to allow me to do a bit more
>> debugging
>>
>> ei7mre runs on a Centos7 VM with adequate resources (20G of SSD backed
>> Storage, 1G ram)  and the dxspider process never actually crashes (up-time
>> is 250 days at present)
>> ei7mre typically has ~ 140 Users at weekends these days and never feels
>> in the least bit sluggish, very light CPU load (0.04) most of the time
>>
>>
>> --
>> 73
>> Brendan EI6IZ
>>
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