Re: [Summary-Talk] Unable to acquire database access

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/18/04 11:57 AM Pablo F. Garcia Melga (pgarcia@deremate.com) wrote:

>In the last few weeks, I'm reading more error's like this "Unable to
>acquire database access, please try again in a moment!" than ever, are this
>normal? What can I do about them?

Getting that message occasionally is normal. When Summary is processing 
logs, or doing DNS lookups, there are occasional moments when the report 
database is locked and reports can not be displayed. In normal operation 
this should not happen for more than a minute or two every processing 
run, and usually is much shorter than that.

If you are running out of RAM, forcing Summary's database to swap to 
virtual memory, this message can come up more frequently. You should 
check that the amount of memory Summary says that it is using on the 
Program Status report is always less than the amount of physical RAM you 
have installed in the machine you are running Summary on.

In some situations where this message is coming up it can also help to 
set "Slow down DNS lookups by (0-full speed)" to five or six, or higher. 
But this particular situation seems to be very rare.

This message can also come up and stay up, making the reports completely 
inacessable, when there is a serious problem with Summary (that is to say 
a crash caused by a bug). Sometimes you can clear this by exiting Summary 
and launching it again. But that doesn't sound like what you are 
describing.

Jason

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