strtable.cpp bug? Re: [Summary-Talk] Summary 2.5.5 is now

[Dale LaFountain <dalela@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 15, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Jason Linhart wrote:

> That sounds like a bug in Summary. I would like to try and  
> duplicate the
> problem here. Could you contact me directly, <jason@summary.net>, and
> make arraignments for me to duplicate your configuration? I will  
> need a
> copy of your configuration file (summary.conf in Summary's Config
> folder) and access to your log files.
>
> Thanks
> Jason
>
>
> John May wrote:
>
>>
>> Must be the last case, as I was running 2.5.5 not in incremental
>> mode.  Why would the database get corrupted during processing?
>>

Any progress on this (potential) bug?

I reported a similar problem several weeks ago, and it still seems to
be happening with Summary 2.5.5.  The error I'm getting is the same
as John:
StrTable.cpp:895: failed assertion
One of our processes exited abnormally!
Running for 1 hour(s) and 0 minutes at May 30, 2005 12:55AM.

The best solution I have found so far is to set up a crontab to quit
and restart summary (OSX CLI version) once a day, just before it does
its daily log run.  Also disabling incremental processing (as Jason
suggested) and cranking the number of days to report on down to 90
(from around 180) seems to help.

However, even in this configuration Summary will still abnormally
exit during log processing between one and three times per week.  I'm
always able restart summary, let it restore from a backup slot, and
then manually process without problems.

I rebuilt my config from scratch a few weeks ago (man, that sucked)
in hopes of fixing the problem, but unfortunately that didn't seem to
help either.

Here's my Program Status report, if it helps.

Log files    2,594
Log file lines    59,354,993
Corrupt log lines    1,123
Skipped log lines    0
Valid log entries    59,353,870
Filtered log entries    38,366,673
Not in any report    78,803
Log size in MBytes    13,531M
Logs on disk in MBytes    1,232.6M
Time to crunch    14:47
Log processing    915.3 Meg/min
Log processing    66,915 lines/sec

Memory used    274M
Physical memory    2,048M
Memory by Type    35.98%    Host
       20.49%    DNSTran
       11.18%    Referrer
       4.43%    Path
       4.33%    Request
       4.01%    Agent
       3.29%    EngPhrase
       3.02%    Phrase

I'm running on an xServe 2x2Ghz, 2GB RAM, OSX Server 10.3.8.

Feature request: more date/time stamps in summary.log, so we can get
more accurate details of when things (like crashes) happen.

Thanks,

Dale
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