[Dxspider-support] Cluster Hang

[Mike McCarthy, W1NR]

Hi Mike,
   I have been running on SuSE for years and 10.2 shortly after it came
out.  Most likely problem is a corrupt user and/or dupe database.  I
would start by deleting /spider/data/dupefile and restart the cluster,
then check users_asc and users.v3 to see if they are unusually large. 
Mine are about 15MB and 20MB respectively.  There were a couple of
threads about this a week ago.

Mike, W1NR

Mike Lewis wrote:
>
> I am still having all kinds of problems getting my clkuster to run
> reliably, mostly since switching to running on a SuSE 10.2 distro. I
> have had problems with my local telnet sessions hanging, but now have
> an even bigger problem where the cluster itself seems to hang. I
> recently (within the last week) loaded a new build of DXSpider (it
> shows as V1.54 build 0.172).
>
> Here is an excerpt from the log showing the last entries prior to the
> hang. I had logged on, composed a message to a friend, logged out and
> then later back on, and then left myself connected. I had been
> expanding the usdbraw file to add state info, but had not yet run the
> load/usdb command. When I came back to the system, the terminal that I
> had run the client program in was not returning any prompts. top
> showed the cluster.pl using a consistent 95% or more of the cpu.
> killing the client and re-running did not connect to the cluster. I
> had to manually kill the cluster.pl instance.
>
> Log file:
>
> 1193281900^ann^ALL^IZ7AUH-6^IZ7AUH-6 DX CLUSTER -> dx.iz7auh.net port 8000
> 1193282956^msg^msg 1 from KE0MF to KB0TVH stored
> 1193283206^DXCommand^KE0MF disconnected
> 1193283284^DXCommand^KE0MF connected from 127.0.0.1
> 1193284847^ann^ALL^PA4JJ-2^dx cluster telnet pa4jj-no-ip.org port 8000
> 1193285786^chat^MW^SM3BEI^#49 vaken!
>
> A few questions:
>
> What is the way to interpret the leading number (I am assuming it is a
> time stamp of some kind?) on each line of the log. Is it possible to
> determine from the log the amount of time between entries?
>
> What is the last entry telling me? is this some sort of a chat request
> to my node?
>
>
> If there is anyone out there with DXSpider experience on SuSE
> (preferably with a relatively new version) maybe they can help me. I
> had this running on a Debian distro on an older box with less
> problems. I guess I could scrap SuSE and try going back to a Debian
> (or some other Linux) install, but I have other unrelated reasons for
> wanting to keep this system running SuSE.
>
> ML
>