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Re: [epf-dev] MySQL errors in EPFWiki
Hi Onno,
 
The errors only seem to occur in development mode, and disappear in production mode (which I suppose makes sense given the latter should be more stable). We're in the process of moving into a production environment, and so very keen to determine the full extent of setting this cacheing variable to true. Is the only real effect to us as developers that the server will need to be restarted when any changes or updates are made to the wiki?
 
If anyone has any idea as to exactly why the cacheing variable being true stops the MySQL errors, I would truly love to know! I'm happy we seem to be able to remove the error, but knowing the why would be ideal.
 
Thanks again for your continued help.
 
Matt
 
 

From: epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Onno van der Straaten
Sent: 19 May 2011 20:46
To: Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List
Subject: Re: [epf-dev] MySQL errors in EPFWiki

Hi Matt,
This variable is default set to false in development.rb so that you can see code changes in the running application without a web server restart. If you access the application only configuration file is used: development, test or production.rb.

This lost connection problem is of course a bit tricky and unpredictable and I don't have an explanation why this seems to have an effect.

The error message is btw not in the log files of http://epf.eclipse.org but for that I can offer an explanation. I suspect the problem is caused by the session management and few users login on http://epf.eclipse.org. So almost all the content of that site is served directly from cached pages and page fragments. I think I can provide a fix for this issue but first I have to be able to reproduce this in my environment.

In what mode are you running the application when this problem occurs? If are only using the application and not changing it, you should run in production mode. That has the best settings for a production environment. If you are on Linux you can specify the environment using a environment variable RAILS_ENV for example with
export RAILS_ENV=production
But if the variable is not set, it is set to production in environment.rb which has the line
ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'

Best Regards,
Onno


On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Matthew Austin <Matthew.austin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Onno,
 
Thanks for your reply. After a little more testing and rooting around, I discovered that these errors no longer presented themselves after turning config.cache_classes to true in config/environments/*.rb.
 
Do you have any information on exactly what difference this variable makes when it is turned on, and perhaps the other cacheing variable in that file? I understand it's to do with whether or not you need to restart the web server for changes to take effect, but I have to admit to being rather stuck on the details.
 
Thanks again
Matt
 
 

From: epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Onno van der Straaten
Sent: 18 May 2011 13:01
To: Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List
Subject: Re: [epf-dev] MySQL errors in EPFWiki

Hi Matthew,
This is the second time this lost connection issue is reported on this list, see http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/epf-dev/msg03701.html. 
I am going to check the logs of http://epf.eclipse.org to see if I can find out more. I will report back my findings.
Best Regards,
Onno
 


 
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Matthew Austin <Matthew.austin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello,

We're having some seemingly random but persistent errors on our wiki, and wonder if this has been experienced by anyone else, and maybe if there's a fix.

Our database is being hosted on a MySQL server, and we are using LDAP rather than basic authentication.

We often get errors that look like the following:

Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM `pages`

These often arise when clicking on the Home tab, or clicking the browser's back button to get back to the Home tab. They are sometimes exhibiting themselves as 500 Internal Server Errors. They don't always pertain to the same database field, and they don't appear all the time, just sporadically.

I've attached the last number of lines from the log file to show a typical error, and the backtrace from the auto-generated email is below.

Is this purely a database issue? Any help or advice is appreciated!

Matt Austin

<<500error.txt>>

Error report from Wed May 18 10:07:56 +0000 2011
Message Mysql::Error: Lost connection to MySQL server during query: SHOW FIELDS FROM `pages`   
Location        http://10.35.1.105:3005/portal/home    
Action  home   
Controller      portal 
Query          
Method  GET    
SSL     false  
Agent   Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13     
Backtrace
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract_adapter.rb:150:in `log'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:281:in `execute'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/mysql_adapter.rb:411:in `columns'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1080:in `columns'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/base.rb:1088:in `columns_hash'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:63:in `define_attribute_methods'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:187:in `method_missing'
/app/models/wiki_page.rb:153:in `current_version'
/app/models/site.rb:82:in `templates'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `each'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `send'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_proxy.rb:125:in `method_missing'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/associations/association_collection.rb:162:in `method_missing'

/app/models/site.rb:81:in `templates'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/core_ext/object/misc.rb:28:in `returning'
/app/models/site.rb:80:in `templates'
/app/controllers/portal_controller.rb:33:in `home'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1158:in `send'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:1158:in `perform_action_without_filters'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:697:in `call_filters'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:689:in `perform_action_without_benchmark'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:68:in `perform_action_without_rescue'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/rescue.rb:199:in `perform_action_without_caching'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:678:in `perform_action'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/query_cache.rb:33:in `cache'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.0.2/lib/active_record/query_cache.rb:8:in `cache'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/caching.rb:677:in `perform_action'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:524:in `send'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:524:in `process_without_filters'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:685:in `process_without_session_management_support'

/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:123:in `process'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/base.rb:388:in `process'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:171:in `handle_request'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:115:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:126:in `dispatch_cgi'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-2.0.2/lib/action_controller/dispatcher.rb:9:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:112:in `handle_dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:78:in `service'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:104:in `service'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/httpserver.rb:65:in `run'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:173:in `start_thread'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:162:in `start_thread'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:95:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `each'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:92:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:37:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/1.8/webrick/server.rb:82:in `start'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/webrick_server.rb:62:in `dispatch'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/servers/webrick.rb:66
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:342:in `new_constants_in'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.0.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:496:in `require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-2.0.2/lib/commands/server.rb:39
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require'
/apps/epfwiki/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require'
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