[Dxspider-support] User database/info seems to vanish

[Dirk Koopman]

I'm struggling to understand why (one presumes) DXSpider is consuming so 
much disk space.

On GB7DJK I have 20 years of data

spots 3.4G
logs 5.5G
debug 1.3G

debug is only so big because I have several users and node links, each 
day is 120-150MB and there will be up to 11 files.

Is there any evidence in the debug files of restarts? (grep orft debug/*)

This is what a "normal" restart or stoppage from any signal except KILL 
should look like:

If you find that string in one of your debug files, what happens before 
that? Specifically before the actual start string - something like:

1542243714^DXSpider V1.57, build 135 (git: c60ec0c[r]) started
1542243714^Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Dirk Koopman G1TLH

"orft we jolly well go" is the end of initialisation and "bye bye 
everyone - bye bye" indicates the end of a controlled shutdown (either 
by command or a TERM or other catchable signal). [ed: (cough) older 
people in the UK may recognise these as catch phrases from the TV and radio]

They are there as erm.. "unusual" strings that one can grep for.

73 Dirk G1TLH

On 23/11/2018 00:14, Michael Carper, Ph.D. wrote:
> I just doubled the disk space.  It's now got (55% free):
>
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1        40G   17G   21G 45% /
> tmpfs           1.8G     0  1.8G  0% /dev/shm
>
> Mike, WA9PIE
>
> On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:57 PM Michael Carper, Ph.D. <mike at wa9pie.net 
> <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>> wrote:
>
>     Dirk,
>
>     The specs on this machine are as follows:
>
>     Google Cloud Platform
>     Machine type; n1-standard-1 (1 vCPU, 3.75 GB memory)
>     ********
>     Disk Usage (GB)
>     Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sda1        20G  18G  1.5G  93% /
>     tmpfs           1.8G  0  1.8G   0% /dev/shm
>     ********
>     Memory Usage (MB)
>                  total  used       free     shared    buffers     cached
>     Mem:          3707  3587        120          0        159       3045
>     -/+ buffers/cache: 382       3324
>     Swap:            0   0          0
>     ********
>
>     ...maybe it's low on disk space?
>
>     Mike, WA9PIE
>
>     On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 6:38 AM Dirk Koopman via Dxspider-support
>     <dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk
>     <mailto:dxspider-support at tobit.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>         What machine is this running on and what are you using for
>         disk space?
>
>         Dirk
>
>         On 15/11/2018 07:36, Michael Carper, Ph.D. via
>         Dxspider-support wrote:
>>         Greetings all.
>>
>>         Recently, it seems my node (WA9PIE-2) has lost its user
>>         database.  The node has probably restarted without cause.
>>
>>         I say the node has lots its user database because my own
>>         login is greeted with the following:
>>
>>         Hello WA9PIE, this is WA9PIE-2 in Prosper, TX
>>         running DXSpider V1.55 build 0.181
>>         ===
>>         Questions about the WA9PIE-2 Global DX Spotting Network:
>>         email: mike at wa9pie.net <mailto:mike at wa9pie.net>
>>         ===
>>         Cluster: 396 nodes, 344 local / 3207 total users  Max users
>>         6269 Uptime 3 22:26
>>         Please enter your name, set/name <your name>
>>         Please enter your QTH, set/qth <your qth>
>>         Please enter your location with set/location or set/qra
>>         Please enter your Home Node, set/homenode <your home DX Cluster>
>>         WA9PIE de WA9PIE-2 15-Nov-2018 0727Z dxspider >
>>
>>         I've logged into my own node many times and have set all
>>         these values.  Why would it lose them?  Why would it restart?
>>
>>         Has anyone else seen this happen?  Does anyone know what I
>>         can do to avoid it and get the node back to "normal?"
>>
>>         Mike, WA9PIE
>>
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