[Dxspider-support] Spider continues to freeze and/or restart on its own

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

Meanwhile... I've changed all my spawn commands in my crontab to run in the
background.  I'll continue watching to see if there's any recurrence of the
freeze/restart.

Mike, WA9PIE

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> On 23/03/16 09:32, Kjell Jarl wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Is there a similar way to let the connects go to the background, that
>> else has to time out for a non-responsive node?
>> 73
>>
>
> In theory, connects should happen "in background", but it looks as though
> this isn't always the case. I think what is going is that the "hanging" is
> actually waiting for a DNS server to provide an answer, rather than the
> connect itself waiting. The connect is started "non-blocking".
>
> This may be better addressed in the "mojo" branch of the code, for those
> that are feeling adventurous. However, I can't guarantee it as the USP of
> this branch is that all of the networking infrastructure has been converted
> to use the "Mojolicious" perl web framework. If you want to go there you
> will need to "cpanm EV Mojolicious Mojo::IOLoop::ForkCall" (I think that's
> all) before running that branch. There are no other instructions. You can
> change branches back and forth between "master" (the one [nearly] everyone
> is on) and "mojo" and just restart the node in between swaps.
>
> However, it doesn't address the crontab spawn issue (just because it
> hasn't bitten me yet). It ought to. I will probably change that over the
> Easter holidays.
>
> For what it is worth GB7DJK has been running on this branch for some time.
>
> Dirk G1TLH
>
>
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