Re: [Summary-Talk] Unable to aquire db?

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/9/04 6:12 PM Jeff McCombs (jeffm@nicusa.com) wrote:

>    What I thought I'd do, was setup 'virtual' IP addresses on my linux 
>box, and run multiple copies of Summary, one for each site
>
>    The problem is, is that while this works briefly, eventually every one
>of the summary processes begin to report:
>     Unable to acquire database access, please try again in a moment!

It sounds like you are exceeding some system resource, possibly running 
out of physical RAM, but it could be any of several other things. To 
debug this you should try running only a single copy of Summary, and see 
if that has any problems. If one copy at a time still has problems then 
it is something else, perhaps a bug. But if one copy works, then you can 
add copies one at a time till you start having problems and then check to 
see if you are out of RAM, out of open file handles, or some other system 
resource.

>    On a side note, are the reverse-IP resolution performance issues fixed
>on Sun? Under Linux rev-IP resolution screamed, but under Solaris it blew.
>Last time we tested was w/ Sum 2.3.2, under Solaris 2.6. Course... That
>might have been a solaris 2.6 thing

The Sun version started using the new faster DNS lookup approach starting 
in Summary 2.1. So it should have been about the same speed on Sun as it 
is on Linux. You might have had some other difference between the 
machines. Having the machine configured to use a different DNS server 
could make a big difference.

Good Luck
Jason

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