Re: [Summary-Talk] Output Buffer Overflow

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That error message indicates that the buffer that Summary writes reports
into before saving them overflowed. This message is quite unusual, but
can happen if you have some very very long field values and have added
more columns to some of the reports or made some quite long custom HTML
overviews. It could also be caused by a bug in Summary, though I don't
know of anything that would cause this particular error to occur.

If the problem is in the reports, you can work around it by reducing the
value of "Number of lines on a report page", on the Miscellaneous
configuration page (80 or lower should be safe) or by figuring out which
particular report is causing the problem and reducing the number of
columns appearing in that report.

If the problem is with the overviews, which seems more likely given that
you are seeing truncated e-mails, then you need to either simplify the
custom HTML or reduce the number of lines appearing in some of the TopN
sections.

The output buffer is fixed in size. I thought that it was large enough
for any normal situation. I would be interested in seeing your
configuration so I can figure out if you are doing something unusual
with the report/overview layout, or have run into a situation that
wasn't anticipated.

Jason


Bill Taggart wrote:
> 
> Processing a series of weekly, monthly and annual (50+) Summary runs I
> received the following message during the last few runs:
> 
> Output buffer overflow (line 19/20)!
> 
> and on a subsequent run:
> 
> Output buffer overflow (line 20/20)!
> 
> At the same time, I began getting erratic results with the email
> output, e.g. 2/3 of the report missing one run and a complete email
> report for the same file on for a subsequent run.
> 
> Quitting Summary and restarting didn't clear the problem up.
> 
> References to the buffer overflow in the Summary Archives didn't appear
> to apply.

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