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

[Michael Carper, Ph.D.]

I'll look into that, Dirk.  But since doubling the disk space, the original
problem I reported has vanished.

Mike, WA9PIE

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 6:55 PM Dirk Koopman <djk at tobit.co.uk> wrote:

> 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>
> 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> 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
>>> ===
>>> 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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