On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 10:09:04PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Masters recent hard crashes have been caused by the Web WML Program
> forcing the machine to go OOM and die horribly. I have tracked this down
> to the exact wml causing this:
>
> master{treacy}/debian2/web/webwml/romanian/News/weekly#make
> cd . && wml -q -D CUR_YEAR=2000 -o UNDEFuRO:index.ro.html index.wml \
> -DWML_SRC_REALNAME="Joey Hess" -DWML_SRC_USERNAME=joeyh
> ePerl:Error: Perl runtime error (interpreter rc=1)
>
> ---- Contents of STDERR channel: ---------
> Out of memory!
> Out of memory!
> ------------------------------------------
> Out of memory!
> ** WML:Break: Error in Pass 3 (rc=1).
> make: *** [index.ro.html] Error 1
>
> So someone fix it :P
>
> Furthermore - I have put a `ulimit -m 90000 -d 90000 -s 10000 -v 90000' in
> Guy's cronjob. I have tested this running the web scripts and it does
> properly prevent WML from blowing up - hopefully it will work correctly
> when placed in the cron job.
>
> IMPORTANT: Everytime WML does this master *CRASHES HARD* I don't know why
> Linux freaks out like this (we will upgrade kernels tomorrow). I STRONGLY
> recommend someone take this file and set it aside and *FIX* WML so it
> -NEVER- -EVER- does this again!!
>
> This means, don't even *THINK* about running wml on master without having
> run the ulimit above first, and if you think wml is going to loose it then
> you better run top 'M' in another window and kill it fast in case the
> ulimit screws up.
Stop Gap... but if I remove the creation of the index section of the index
page... the page will make and not break. I'm not sure how much use it is
but I didn't want to remove the page, totally, yet if there was a way it
can be fixed quickly enough.
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