Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Hop To
#23182 11/17/2001 6:25 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
OK, I understand.... I removed the persistent connections, but I'm continuing to have a problem: the boards are freezing up periodically.

I ran mysqladmin processlist, and see a whole bunch of processes whose status is "locked".

Any hints?

Max

#23183 11/17/2001 6:34 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
The freeze-up did result in a "too many connections" message when I reloaded. I am no longer using persistent connections in config.

This is puzzling, since this problem had never occured under Perl. Could it be that PHP is still holding on to the connections too long even though the config file now has the flag off?

Max

#23184 11/17/2001 7:01 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
When you change to non-persistent those old httpd children still have the mysql connections open. After awhile these will close by themselves when the httpd children recycle.

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

#23185 11/17/2001 7:21 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
I don't think so...

I think that I restarted the mysql server at the same time as I changed the config. Things were fine for about an hour, and then crashed again.

Right before the crash, I saw many mysql processes with a Locked status - not sure what that means.

I just restarted the server again, let's see what happens.

Max

#23186 11/17/2001 7:33 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
What version of mysql are you running? It sounds like the LOCKED status means the tables are getting locked in which case no queries can be run on the tables until they are unlocked.

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

#23187 11/17/2001 7:36 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
Just did some searching on deja, and it looks like not only do you need to restart mysql when doing this change but the webserver should be restarted as well. Is this possible for you to do this?

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

#23188 11/17/2001 9:48 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Rick,

No, I can't restart the webserver, but the sysadmins are on the lookout to see if they can determine what's going on.

But things seem fine since my last mysql restart, and I'm suspecting that the order of things might matter (ie restart mysql / change config options). Might be academic now, things seem OK: no dormant/locked processes shown in mysqladmin processlist.

mysql status shows:
*************************
ection id: 4891
Current database:
Current user: xxxxx@localhost
Current pager: stdout
Using outfile: ''
Server version: 3.23.37
Protocol version: 10
Connection: Localhost via UNIX socket
Client characterset: latin1
Server characterset: latin1
UNIX socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
Uptime: 2 hours 31 min 3 sec

Threads: 1 Questions: 143606 Slow queries: 20 Opens: 78 Flush tables: 1 Ope
n tables: 64 Queries per second avg: 15.845

*********************************

I'll post again here if the problem continues to occur. Immense thanks for all the help.

Max

#23189 11/17/2001 9:56 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
I spoke too fast... 30 seconds after my previous post, the problem occured again. Dozens of locked processes, too many connections.

I wonder if it's something I'm doing... ie I went into mysql and ran status, came out, ran ps aux | more, checked the boards and it crashed. I'm going to try to keep my grubby hands off to see if that helps. But if this rings a bell, please advise.

Max

#23190 11/17/2001 11:10 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Crashed twice in the following 15 minutes. I'm asking the server admins to restart the webserver to see if that helps.
Max

#23191 11/18/2001 12:07 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
OK, now we might be getting somewhere. I just noticed that one of my boards is not accessible, and is giving me errors. All the other boards are OK.

When I try to access the bad board, it give me:

SQL ERROR: Unable to do_query: SELECT B_Number,B_Parent,B_Posted,B_Last_Post,B_Username,B_Subject,B_Main,B_Status,B_Approved,B_Icon,B_Reged,B_Counter,B_Sticky,B_Color,B_Replies,B_UStatus FROM w3t_Posts WHERE B_Topic = 1 AND B_Board = 'marilyn' ORDER BY B_Last_Post DESC LIMIT 11
Got error 127 from table handler: 1030
Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/maxfisch/public_html/thehang/mysql.inc.php on line 99

Is my database corrupted? (I wouldn't be surprised, considering the company it keeps)

Max

#23192 11/18/2001 12:34 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Help!

sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk -r /usr/local/mysql/var/WWWThreads/w3t
_Boards.MYD
/usr/local/mysql/bin/myisamchk: error: '/usr/local/mysql/var/WWWThreads/w3t_Boar
ds.MYD' doesn't have a correct index definition. You need to recreate it before
you can do a repair

#23193 11/18/2001 1:39 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
OK, it's amazing the things you find out when you read the mySQL manual <img border="0" title="" alt="[Eek!]" src="images/icons/shocked.gif" /> I needed to stop the mysql server while running myisamchk <img border="0" title="" alt="[Embarrassed]" src="images/icons/blush.gif" />

I successfully repaired the table, and restarted the mysql server. Let's see if it'll crash again. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Max

PS- please forgive the many deperate messages. I truly appreciate your help, Rick

#23194 11/18/2001 12:17 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
I'm at my wit's end - crashed again twice. Repaired tables and restarted server each time. I'm monitoring processlist... everything is ok for a while, then for no apparent reason, dozens of locked processes pop up, and boards freeze up.

It's increasingly looking like I'll have to switch back to Perl soon <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

Max

#23195 11/18/2001 3:05 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
Have your admins restarted the webserver? It definitely sounds like you have some corruption going on. The strange thing is that the queries are exactly the same between the PHP and PERL version. Do you actually have users accessing the PHP forums or are they still using the PERL ones?

I've been looking for a common thread on deja to see what the problem might be. Any idea of the mysql version you are running, and what version of php?

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

#23196 11/18/2001 3:16 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
Ok, reread all your posts and see your mysql version. It's strange that you say it works ok for awhile and then the locked processes start to appear. There must be something that triggers this. You might want to try running myisamchk -e on all of your data files to see if there is any other corruption going on. Then, you might try OPTIMIZING all of your tables as well. You can do these from the mysql command prompt (make sure the mysql server is down when doing this):

SHOW TABLES; (this will show you the names of all of your tables)

OPTIMIZE TABLE tablename; (for each table)

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer

#23197 11/19/2001 4:13 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
OK....

PHP version: 4.06
MySQL version: 3.23.37

The webserver hadn't been restarted after the last table repair.

1) crashed again
2) I repaired all the tables this morning with myisamchk -r
3) webserver and mysql server restarted by admins
4) Boards seemd stable
5) ran myisamchk -e on all tables, all was ok
6) couldn't get into mysql with mysql server stopped in order to run optimize, so I ran myisamchk --sort-index instead
7) restarted mysql server, my fingers are crossed. Boards seem stable and fast as hell.

I had sent you a private message this morning on the ubbthreads board, which you can ignore for now ... I'll report developments over here.

Profuse thanks for all your time,
Max


Ran my

#23198 11/18/2001 6:21 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Another freeze-up.

Max_connections are now set at 200, so I'm not getting crashes, the boards just freeze, with many locked processes showing in mysqladmin processlist.

I checked the tables, and they were not corrupted. Restarted mysql server and apache.

Heard back from the server admins, they don't know what's causing the problem.

I'm in your hands... I sent you access info in a private message on the other (ubbthreads) board.

Max

#23199 11/18/2001 9:45 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Rick,

I know I'm repeating myself, but thanks for all the help.

As you stated, php 4.0.5 was running. Although I had verified prior to the UBBThreads installation that 4.0.6 was running, it apparently got downgraded accidentally when I asked the admins to recompile PHP with mysql support.

At this point, the boards seem stable, and wickedly fast. I'll post an update as necessary.

Warm regards,
Max

#23200 11/19/2001 12:22 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
ran fine for a couple of hours under php4.0.6, then crashed again <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="images/icons/frown.gif" />

I'm emailing you the server process list as well as the the mysql process list.

Max

#23201 11/19/2001 7:42 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
After the millionth crash, I gave up and went back to Perl.

Good thing there were no altertables needed for the migration, I would have been stuck.

It is still completely puzzling that PHP can't handle the high loads/concurrent users, while Perl doesn't seem to have a problem.

Max

#23202 11/20/2001 5:40 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
This problem happened a lot on my old host's forums server. They had quite a few forums systems running on this server, and the MySQL server died about once every day (at least).

I'm not sure if this ever got fixed, because they decided to chmod 700 my forums directory (after I used a php system command to create a DB backup).

I moved my forums over to our new dedicated server.

Administrator, Videogame Music Archive

#23203 11/20/2001 10:21 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Thanks Ross,

But I'm already running on a dedicated server - the load is pretty high.

So I'm not quite sure what to do next.

Cheers,
Max

#23204 11/21/2001 12:42 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
I was actually trying to establish that you weren't the only one having this problem. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />

I don't know how PHP utilizes the MySQL API, but if perl's DBI works fine, there must be some difference between the way they use the API. It makes me wonder if php 4.1.0/4.0.7 (which are, from what I read on zend.com, going to be released simultaneously) will have updates to this situation.

Administrator, Videogame Music Archive

#23205 11/21/2001 1:17 PM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
Thanks Ross,

I'll have to hope that a PHP upgrade will solve the problem - I'm using 4.06 right now.

In the meantime, it looks like my server's 256 Mb of memory is getting a run for its money, and there's periodic use of the swap file (under perl). I think I'm going to switch to PHP again, just to monitor memory utilization. As each child process carries a copy of PHP with it, it's possible that PHP is being much more demanding of memory, causing the system to slow down as it starts swapping to disk, and in turn causing the mySQL/PHP combo to misbehave, lock processes in an attempt to recover from the slowdown, etc.

That's my best theory so far. I'll start by buying some more memory.

Regards,
Max

#23206 11/27/2001 1:57 AM
Anonymous
Unregistered
Anonymous
Unregistered
The problem is finally solved: I was running under the Linux 2.2 kernel, and an upgrade to 2.4 fixed the problem for some mysterious reason. Thanks for all who tried to help!
Max

#23207 11/27/2001 12:27 PM
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
R
Former Developer
Former Developer
R Offline
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 9,242
Likes: 1
That's great Max! Thanks for posting.

-------------------
Rick Baker
UBBThreads developer


Link Copied to Clipboard
ShoutChat
Comment Guidelines: Do post respectful and insightful comments. Don't flame, hate, spam.
Recent Topics
spam issues
by ECNet - 03/19/2024 11:45 PM
Looking for a forum
by azr - 03/15/2024 11:26 PM
Editing Links in Post
by Outdoorking - 03/15/2024 9:31 AM
Question on barkrowler and the like
by Mors - 02/29/2024 6:51 PM
Member Permissions Help
by domspeak - 02/27/2024 6:31 PM
Who's Online Now
1 members (rootman), 641 guests, and 112 robots.
Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod
Random Gallery Image
Latest Gallery Images
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
by isaac, August 6
3D Creations
3D Creations
by JAISP, December 30
Artistic structures
Artistic structures
by isaac, August 29
Stones
Stones
by isaac, August 19
Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 8.0.0
(Preview build 20230217)