[Summary-Talk] Linux running and running and...

["a.h.s. boy" <spudlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently moved from the Mac version of Summary to the Linux version 
(2.3.3), and the speed increase was enormous, though the new hardware 
is substantially beefier than the Mac was. I ran Summary for about 3 
weeks on Linux before giving clients the new address.

About a week ago, Summary ran its last processing run, though it should 
be executed every 2 days. Last night I upgraded to Summary 2.3.4, and 
since I use incremental processing, I loaded a backup as per the 
upgrade instructions.  I told Summary to process logs now, and it ran 
overnight. This morning, it was still running...I get "Unable to 
acquire database access".

There were 11 Summary processes running, and "./summary -quit" killed 9 
of them. I killed off the other 2 manually, and tried launching Summary 
again. I got "String table validation error (index count 
91561!=83633+7926)! Database is corrupt! Resetting database.", which I 
figured meant that I had interrupted Summary and it was angry! But I 
assumed it would fix itself with another processing run.

It's been running another 7 hours now, and no sign of progress. I 
currently have 11 Summary processes running, which I figure are threads 
for doing DNS lookups or the like, although the FAQ says "Normally 
there is only one copy running at a time, but it is possible to be 
running more than one copy by accident."

Question 1: What's going on there? Should there be one Summary process, 
or many? Many when processing, one when idle?

Question 2: Is there any way to find out what Summary is currently 
doing? It's been "processing" for 7 hours (much longer than it took 
when I first installed it on Linux), and no files that I can see have 
been updated in the past 6 hours. (Report.dat, at 104MB, seems to be 
the most recently updated file, 6 hours ago).

Cheers,
spud.


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