Forum OpenACS Q&A: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1

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1: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1
Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 12/16/02 05:19 PM
I finally got nsd 3.5.1 installed.  The only hurdle was I didn't want to have two different tcl installs, so I had to build my own RPM to replace the old.  What a PITA.  Too bad none of the source-based distros have a decent installer yet.

The big motivation for me was 3.3.1+ad13 would reliably crash every 20-80k pages served.  This tended to piss users off since carnage blender is so update-intensive I have to aggressively buffer writes to the database to keep up with demand.  (I thought it was a hardware issue, but after getting a new server I had the same problem.)  3.5.1 has served over 600k pages now w/o a hiccup, so it very much looks like the particular bug(s) causing this got fixed.

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2: Re: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Peter Alberer on 12/16/02 11:37 PM
Does anyone have experience with aolserver 3.5.1 and german characters (umlauts)? Do i have to wait for an aolserver version where ad13 changes are merged into? Looks like that umlauts are not that well handled yet? (ns_return UMLAUT => garbage)
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3: Re: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1 (response to 1)
Posted by jerry arns on 12/16/02 11:39 PM
Does this version include ad13+oacs1 modifications ? (mainly the international stuff)
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4: Re: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 12/16/02 11:44 PM
no, it doesn't.
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5: Re: a happy user of aolserver 3.5.1 (response to 1)
Posted by Vlad Seryakov on 12/17/02 04:31 PM
We started using 3.5.1 a month ago, it works fine but we occasionally
have server crashes with message alloc: invalid block ...
We use custom C module and i blamed it to this module.
I am still watching the server without that module, had just one
crashe since.
We run it under RH 8.