Crash on perlbal 1.53, possible Foundry influence

dormando dormando at rydia.net
Wed Feb 7 03:13:29 UTC 2007


dormando wrote:
> (accidentally sent to just Brett).
> 
>  > Has anybody else has seen a 1.53 Perlbal go MIA?
>  > Is there any additional information / debugging I can provide that 
> might be useful?
>  >
>  > B-
> 
> If you can grab an strace of one of the dying processes, it's 
> straightforward to look at what perlbal was doing when it went kaputs.
> 
> Also; How are you getting the logs? Perlbal tends to print critical 
> errors to STDOUT. Whenever I notice perlbal going nutters on our LBs, 
> the first thing I do is fire up one of the instances in a screen session 
> and wait for it to crash, often grabbing the strace at the same time.
> 
> -Dormando

When I say STDOUT, I mean STDERR, btw. Stupid me. So if you just pipe 
STDOUT somewhere you'll miss it.

-Dormando


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