[App_rpt-users] stats page, stat post obsessing

[Stephen Rodgers]

Don Russell wrote:
> can't get to stats.allstarlink.org page.
> 
> also my node is unable to get there and its cause multiple, multiple instances of wget
> to appear.  I don't think the statpost code is handling failures to get to the stats page very well.
> its kind of obsessing over retrys and not killing of the children. 
> I killed off all of them just before I loaded the browser and went to 
> hotmail to send this. I just checked and this is what I got.
> 
> ps -ax output:
> 
> 18197 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390510&s
> 18202 ?        S      0:00 sleep 600
> 18224 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390522&s
> 18234 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390543&s
> 18235 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390556&s
> 18237 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390577&s
> 18238 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390589&s
> 18240 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390610&s
> 18242 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390622&s
> 18243 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390643&s
> 18246 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390655&s
> 18248 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390676&s
> 18250 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390689&s
> 18252 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390710&s
> 18254 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390722&s
> 18257 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390743&s
> 18258 ?        S      0:00 /usr/bin/wget -q --output-document=/dev/null http://stats.allstarlink.org/uhandler.php?node=2090&time=1243390755&s
> 
> they don't seem to be chewing up too much cpu, I wonder if there is a switch to tell wget to die off and not replicate.
> 
> Don
> W9DRR
> 
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Don,


stats.allstarlink.org is definitely down. We'll look in to it.

I think you might have just uncovered a weakness in app_rpt. with
statpost. It should not be spawning any more than one process at a time.
If there is a process running, it should just toss out the statpost
update and wait for a specific amount of time for it to finish, if
it never finishes, it should be killed and a new wget process started.

Would you be kind enough to log the issue in Mantis, and paste in the ps
-ax output and suggested fix above?

Steve
WA6ZFT