[Dxspider-support] DX Spider restarts

Michael Carper, Ph.D. mike at wa9pie.net
Tue Feb 16 14:21:58 GMT 2016


I can't find any "Orft" in the debug file.  And this restart of the cluster
is 'random'.  That is - it can go for 18 days... 30 days... 45 days... 10
days... there's no pattern to it.

Because of that, I'm not convinced that the spawn jobs are the culpret.

Mike, WA9PIE

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 3:26 AM, Ian Maude <maudeij at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well that’s in my cron too Mike, no problems here.  I have seen
> crashes like this from a corrupt dupefile or user file in the past.  I
> would just recursively grep the debug files for ‘Orft’ and choose the
> latest one to look at for clues.
>
> 73 Ian
>
> On 15 February 2016 at 23:53, Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
> wrote:
> > Would this item in my cronjob cause the DX Spider application to restart?
> >
> > # AutoUpdate DXSpider Server
> > 0 1 * * * spawn("cd /spider; git reset --hard; git pull")
> >
> > If so, I wonder if there was an update this morning... and maybe I should
> > think about the cadence of checking for udpates.
> >
> > Mike, WA9PIE
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> I searched today's debug file for "Orft" and did not get any hits.
> >>
> >> The system cronjob is empty.  The Spider cronjob is pretty typical...
> link
> >> peers... update country and wpx... update usdb.  There's nothing in
> there
> >> that would restart the application.
> >>
> >> At the time the application restarted, there were no abnormal memory
> >> issues with the server (30% memory used).  Only 30% of my disk is used.
> >>
> >> Very strange...
> >>
> >> Mike, WA9PIE
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 10:21 AM, djk <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 15/02/16 15:45, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd really like to know why my DX Spider node restarts itself
> >>>> occasionally.  The server itself hasn't been restarted weeks... but
> the
> >>>> Spider software just restarted 16 minutes ago without me.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> What does the debug file say? Hint: search for "Orft" and look
> backwards
> >>> from that.
> >>>
> >>> Dirk G1TLH
> >>>
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