Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems
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It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = 50GB free on one drive; 97GB free on the other.WebDNA is using 335MB real and 386MB of virtual memory. The server has 2GB RAM, and right now about 600MB is inactive.I just now cleaned out a couple thousand emails from the "completed" folder. My trigger to delete them after 30 days wasn't working (oops) but is now.Jim ZieglerOn Apr 8, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Tana Adams wrote:> This type of thing has happened to us as well -- for a while. We > finally> determined it had to be lack of disk space. We go in, clear away > some log> files and emails and it works fine (until it happens again a couple of> months later).>> You're lucky if you haven't lost any data because this sometimes > does happen> with us -- not that often but it has happened. The last few > hundred records> will just be gone because WebCat stopped right in the middle of it > writing> to the database.>> Anyway, I hope this helps.>> Tana>> -----Original Message-----> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On > Behalf Of Will> Starck> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:40 PM> To: WebDNA Talk> Subject: Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems>> Are you sure you're not running out of RAM? Running out of disk space?>> Cheers,>> Will>> PS: I was going to comment on an intermittent WebDNA problem I have > been> having since about 2004, but I reached my smartass quotient today > already,> so I kept my thoughts to myself...>>>> -----Original Message-----> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On > Behalf Of Jim> Ziegler> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:00 AM> To: WebDNA Talk> Subject: Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems>> I think that all the databases that are usually affected are using> an .hdr file. Many of my other dbs are in merge format. I'm almost> certain that all the fields in the .hdrs match the fields in the .dbs> ('cause the dbs wouldn't work at all if the fields didn't match), but> I guess I'll check again . Does anyone have any caveats on using hdr> files vs. embedding the field names in the dbs?>> Thanks.> Jim Ziegler>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Jim Ziegler wrote:>> Donovan and Christophe,>> First, thanks for you suggestions.>>>> I do FTP dbs and other files to the server, so owner and group are>> *not* www. However, I use the Access Control Lists to ensure that>> www has read and write permissions to all the files. I just double->> checked, and those settings are still correct. It's always worked>> for me before...>>>> Jim>>>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote:>>> Jim Ziegler wrote:>>>> Hello, List,>>>> I'm baffled, and I can't find anything pertinent in the archives.>>>> I'm running WebDNA 6 on Mac OSX Server 10.4.11.>>>> Lately, every now and then, WebDNA balks. It does not shut down>>>> completely, but certain things stop working. Certain databases>>>> won't function, while others do. A certain [copyfile] tag fails.>>>> The problems occur on at least two of my WebDNA sites (apparently>>>> at the same time). It happened again today, and I found several>>>> of these errors in the WebDNA error log stating:>>>> Error: Can't open order file. Ignoring [OrderFile] context>>>> This happened on my shoppingcart page, which normally functions>>>> perfectly.>>>> One more interesting clue: When the craziness happened today, I>>>> flushed databases, and all is well again.>>>> Any ideas?>>>> Thanks in advance. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining this well.>>>> Jim Ziegler>>>>>>>>> Are you doing any manual file uploads that may effect permissions?>>> Kinda sounds like a permissions thing.>>>>>> Donovan>>>>>>>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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50GB free on one drive; 97GB free on the other.WebDNA is using 335MB real and 386MB of virtual memory. The server has 2GB RAM, and right now about 600MB is inactive.I just now cleaned out a couple thousand emails from the "completed" folder. My trigger to delete them after 30 days wasn't working (oops) but is now.Jim ZieglerOn Apr 8, 2008, at 8:55 PM, Tana Adams wrote:> This type of thing has happened to us as well -- for a while. We > finally> determined it had to be lack of disk space. We go in, clear away > some log> files and emails and it works fine (until it happens again a couple of> months later).>> You're lucky if you haven't lost any data because this sometimes > does happen> with us -- not that often but it has happened. The last few > hundred records> will just be gone because WebCat stopped right in the middle of it > writing> to the database.>> Anyway, I hope this helps.>> Tana>> -----Original Message-----> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On > Behalf Of Will> Starck> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:40 PM> To: WebDNA Talk> Subject: Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems>> Are you sure you're not running out of RAM? Running out of disk space?>> Cheers,>> Will>> PS: I was going to comment on an intermittent WebDNA problem I have > been> having since about 2004, but I reached my smartass quotient today > already,> so I kept my thoughts to myself...>>>> -----Original Message-----> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com] On > Behalf Of Jim> Ziegler> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:00 AM> To: WebDNA Talk> Subject: Re: Strange intermittent WebDNA problems>> I think that all the databases that are usually affected are using> an .hdr file. Many of my other dbs are in merge format. I'm almost> certain that all the fields in the .hdrs match the fields in the .dbs> ('cause the dbs wouldn't work at all if the fields didn't match), but> I guess I'll check again . Does anyone have any caveats on using hdr> files vs. embedding the field names in the dbs?>> Thanks.> Jim Ziegler>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Jim Ziegler wrote:>> Donovan and Christophe,>> First, thanks for you suggestions.>>>> I do FTP dbs and other files to the server, so owner and group are>> *not* www. However, I use the Access Control Lists to ensure that>> www has read and write permissions to all the files. I just double->> checked, and those settings are still correct. It's always worked>> for me before...>>>> Jim>>>> On Apr 7, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Donovan Brooke wrote:>>> Jim Ziegler wrote:>>>> Hello, List,>>>> I'm baffled, and I can't find anything pertinent in the archives.>>>> I'm running WebDNA 6 on Mac OSX Server 10.4.11.>>>> Lately, every now and then, WebDNA balks. It does not shut down>>>> completely, but certain things stop working. Certain databases>>>> won't function, while others do. A certain [copyfile] tag fails.>>>> The problems occur on at least two of my WebDNA sites (apparently>>>> at the same time). It happened again today, and I found several>>>> of these errors in the WebDNA error log stating:>>>> Error: Can't open order file. Ignoring [orderfile] context>>>> This happened on my shoppingcart page, which normally functions>>>> perfectly.>>>> One more interesting clue: When the craziness happened today, I>>>> flushed databases, and all is well again.>>>> Any ideas?>>>> Thanks in advance. I'm sorry if I'm not explaining this well.>>>> Jim Ziegler>>>>>>>>> Are you doing any manual file uploads that may effect permissions?>>> Kinda sounds like a permissions thing.>>>>>> Donovan>>>>>>>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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