On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 05:17 -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: Cool...so where's the code? I'd like to try this out under stress with my test suite (which I just resurrected from the CVS attic). For anyone else who might be interested in the test suite, which actually tests the wiki over-the-web with multi-threaded fetches and searches and such and shares no code at all with mediawiki, making it a proper QA test, I've put it on my subversion server (I don't much like CVS): http://piclab.com/svn/wikitest It compiles and runs, and loads the wiki with lots of sample pages, but most of the actual tests fail now because the wiki doesn't much resemble what it did when I wrote the tests--so I'll be fixing that in the next few days. -- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee at piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/

There's been some sort of memory leak in the MWDaemon running on Vincent. After a few hours it starts swapping, and the daemon has to be restarted to free up the memory. In some quick testing on my own box (running Ubuntu with a Linux 2.6 kernel) I haven't been able to reproduce leaking; memory usage seems to stay fairly constant at least over a few minutes of grueling testing. Vincent is running Debian-testing, and for some reason was installed with a 2.4 kernel. Differences in threading behavior of the older kernel might or might not be related to the leak, so I figured it'd be worth giving it an upgrade. I installed the 2.6 kernel package, poked briefly at the grub menu to make sure it looked right, and restarted. The machine either hasn't come back up or hasn't reconnected to the network, and it's either not on the serial console server or isn't responding (and its port isn't labeled), so it'll need to be checked out at some point. In the meantime, I'm setting up a second Lucene search server on Isidore, the other experimental machine which is running FreeBSD 5.3. The GCC build is slightly broken on FreeBSD so this required a little patching and pain, but we'll see how it goes. While the index is building, the search is offline. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)