[Orca-users] Re: Resync all Orca data

[Blair Zajac]

Hi Bob,

That's great that its working.

You can try putting the 0.26 patch on 0.27b1 but don't count on it patching
the files automatically.

Blair

bob johnson wrote:
> 
> --- Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> > Hi Bob,
> >
> > Can you send me the exact error message from Orca
> > (just copy and paste?)
> 
> Hello Blair,
> 
> One of the errors follows:
> bin/orca: warning: cannot create Orca::HTMLFile
> object: cannot open
> `/home/tlabai/rlj/oooo/orca/data_store/html_out/o_bbuxas04-weekly.html.htm'
> for writing: Too many open files.
> 
> BUT let's forget the problem for the time being!
> 
> I currently have 0.27b1 running and have started
> working on moving to 0.27b2. All the percol files are
> compressed with bunzip2.
> 
> I thought about putting the 0.26 patch on 0.27b1 but
> am holding off pending the result of getting 0.27b2
> running.
> 
> For all its worth, as it turned out all the html pages
> that were lost came back after a while. I assume after
> a series of data updates. All looks fine now.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> rlj
> 
> >
> > Which version of Orca are you using?  Are your
> > percol-* files compressed?
> >
> > If it's older than 0.27b2 or if you didn't apply the
> > patch to 0.26, then
> > Orca will not close file descriptors to an
> > uncompression program when it
> > should and this can cause Orca to run out of file
> > descriptors.  You can
> > try applying this patch:
> >
> >
> http://www.orcaware.com/orca/pub/patches/orca-0.26-defunct-processes-patch.txt
> >
> >
> > Another solution is to look at the maximum number of
> > file descriptors your
> > shell has.  Run either limit for csh style shells or
> > ulimit for Bourne
> > style shells to see the maximum number of file
> > descriptors.  If you can
> > raise the number, then do so.
> >
> > If you're reloading all of the data, I would upgrade
> > to 0.27b2 anyway to
> > not have to deal with any file renaming issues.
> >
> > If this doesn't work, then follow your step.
> >
> > Glad you like Orca.  Do you need any consulting work
> > done :)
> >
> > Blair
> >
> > Bob Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello Blair
> > >
> > > Some of my html files had been deleted and I
> > wanted to get everything up
> > > to date. I did the old trick of removing all html
> > and rrd files and
> > > restarting orca. This time though not all the html
> > files came back. I
> > > have done this before and it has always worked.
> > Now thought I have
> > > several months worth of data from many machines.
> > >
> > > Over the time of the regeneration there were 1268
> > messages like:
> > > bin/orca: warning: cannot create Orca::HTMLFile
> > object: cannot open
> > > `/home/html_out/o_bbuxas05-monthly.html.htm' for
> > writing: Too many open
> > > files.
> > >
> > > So the question is: Will the missing files
> > eventually be created as new
> > > data arrives and the htmls have to be updated?
> > >
> > > Or should I do the following:
> > > 1 - stop Orca
> > > 2 - shutdown orcallator.se on the machines I
> > monitor
> > > 3 - remove all rrd and html files
> > > 4 - move all previous data out of the area where
> > Orca normally looks for
> > > it.
> > > 5 - do the following 3 step loop, until all old
> > data is back in
> > > a - move a little old data to Orca's regular data
> > collection area
> > > b - start Orca, let it pickup this data and make
> > the html's
> > > c - stop Orca, go back to 'a'
> > > 6 - after all the old data is processed start Orca
> > and the orcallators
> > >
> > > Thanks for you help
> > >
> > > rlj
> > >
> > > PS - Thanks for writing Orca. It has been very
> > helpful and allowed me to
> > > find various problems and come up with solutions.
> > > --
> > > Bob Johnson,   Tellabs Operations,
> > Bob.Johnson at tellabs.com,
> > > 630-512-7023