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Date:      Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:42:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Stephen C. Comoletti" <stevec@delanet.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Problems with perl script dying before completion
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904081242050.25113-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <370CFF8A.16257A6C@delanet.com>

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On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Stephen C. Comoletti wrote:

> 	I'm having a problem with a customers perl script dying before completion.
> The script searches a text based list of data based on criteria from users of
> the site and outputs it to them. Output ranges from 5 to 1k lines of text. It
> works fine on the smaller queries, and dies mid way through on the ones with a
> larger output. 
> 
> 	Web server is a p2/300 with 192mb ram, uw-scsi2, and FreeBSD 3.0r. Zeus is
> the web server software. I have contacted Zeus who had little to offer in
> this. The problem appears to only affect dialup connections to this site. Over
> the lan at work it does not occur. Web logs show no error, only a code 200 for
> a successful completion. Reloading the page will cause it to finish the run on
> the same query completely. I'm somewhat at a loss on this one. The script runs
> in under 20-30 seconds. Only changes to the server since this began were the
> additions of 3 domains (largest of which pulls in 200k hits daily). The
> machine still runs 90% idle (except when alot of cgi is running). 

Scaffold your script and see if some command is dying.

This appears to be a Perl problem, not a system problem.

Doug White                               
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
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