Re: [Summary-Talk] Wish we could leave it running

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/14/04 10:51 PM Jeff Whitmill (jeff@whitmill.net) wrote:

>We're using Summary Pro 2.5.2a. We'd like to be able to just leave it 
>running, having it automatically run stats once a day.

That is how Summary is designed to work.

>This odes not seem to be possible.

This does work for most people. If it is not working for you we need to 
figure out where things are going wrong.

>A first run after launching usually 
>goes well. After that, it's iffy. It usually takes no more than another 
>run or two to generate a page of errors opening log files it read 
>earlier without complaint. At this point, connecting to the overview 
>page produces a page void of data.

This sounds sort of like the vnode problem with MacOS, thought it is 
difficult to tell for sure without more information.

You can test for the vnode problem by using "sysctl kern.maxvnodes" at 
the command line to find out how many vnodes your system is allocating. 
Then triple that number and use the command "sudo sysctl -w 
kern.maxvnodes=50000", replacing 50000 with the number you got by 
tripling the number you have now. Then try running Summary and see if it 
works or not. That command will raise the number of vnodes available only 
until the next time the machine reboots, but that should be long enough 
to find out if you are having a vnode related problem.

If that doesn't work, then I need more information. What is the exact 
wording of the error messages, etc.

Jason

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