[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Getting network failure errors when saving large MARC files (EG master, post 2.1)

[Bill Erickson]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:37:30PM -0400, Bill Erickson wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:09:06PM -0400, Yamil Suarez wrote:
> > On Oct 31, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
> > 
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >On 10/28/2011 06:13 PM, Yamil Suarez wrote:
> > >>This new patch and the previous one just worked on a few large
> > >>records
> > >>in my test VM running the EG 2.1 release. I will do more testing on
> > >>Monday, but things are looking up. Btw, I suspect I need both patches
> > >>and not just the second one?
> > >
> > >Great, I'm glad to hear that testing has gone well so far.  To
> > >answer your question, you need the first patch in place to apply
> > >the second one, but it now looks like that the SIGPIPE handling
> > >added in the first patch doesn't help the problem.
> > >
> > >By the way, for anybody else looking at this, the relevant bug on
> > >Launchpad is https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/883155.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >Galen
> > >-- 
> > 
> > I just wanted to confirm that the fix also worked on a clean Git
> > master EG installation on a VirtualBox VM, though it was to be
> > expected since the problem was in OSRF and not EG.
> 
> Hi Yamil,
> 
> JFYI, while testing this patch, Dan Scott identified a problem that
> resulted in opensrf services dying.  I've pushed a change to the topic
> branch that will hopefully help shed some light on the issue, which I
> was unfortunately unable to reproduce. I've updated the bug with more 
> information.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/opensrf/+bug/883155

And.. I've pushed an alternate solution to the original problem, which
uses good ol' fashioned file locking instead of shared memory.  I've
upated the bug.  Testing appreciated.

-b

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