[erlang-questions] Yaws process died when executing read_file

[CGS]

Hi,

Well, that's a question I cannot answer (I can only give you wild 
guesses), sorry. But if you need the file just with Erlang (not in 
YAWS), why don't you use the same mechanism (meaning, passing the buffer 
further and not accessing the harddisk all the time)? It seems 
reasonable and faster than accessing it over and over from the harddisk.

Cheers,
CGS




On 10/19/2011 02:36 PM, Martin Dimitrov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> Looking through the config options I found max_size_cached_file which
> has a default value of 8 kb. The yaws file that is being requested is
> about 15 kb. Changing the option to 20 kb made the file cashed in memory
> and no errors are returned. But I wonder why erlang cannot open the file
> for reading.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Martin
>
>
> On 10/19/2011 2:34 PM, CGS wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I suppose the access permission error is coming more from the number
>> of threads accessing that file and less from OS.
>>
>> Check your yaws.conf and override some default variables, especially
>> max_connections, keepalive_maxusers and process_options variables (or
>> fail_on_bind_err to check if it YAWS or external sources of
>> limitation). For more information look here:
>> http://yaws.hyber.org/yman.yaws?page=yaws.conf.
>>
>> Also, it wouldn't be such a bad idea to monitor your system resources
>> while setting up limits for connections.
>>
>> And the last thing, if you feel your hardware system is not used at
>> its maximum capacity, try running multiple YAWS systems.
>>
>> I hope it will help.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> CGS
>>
>>
>> On 10/19/2011 12:46 PM, Martin Dimitrov wrote:
>>> I do performance testing of our Erlang application with OpenSTA. The
>>> test runs with 300 virtual users. At some point the following errors
>>> start popping up:
>>>
>>> Yaws process died: {{badmatch,{error,eacces}},
>>>                   [{yaws_server,ut_read,1},
>>>                    {yaws_server,deliver_dyn_file,5},
>>>                    {yaws_server,aloop,3},
>>>                    {yaws_server,acceptor0,2},
>>>                    {proc_lib,init_p_do_apply,3}]}
>>>
>>> The call file:read_file(UT#urltype.fullpath) crashes in function
>>> ut_read(UT). I recompiled the module and printed the context. The error
>>> is eacces and UT holds:
>>>
>>> {urltype,yaws,
>>>                             {file_info,14088,regular,read_write,
>>>                                 {{2011,9,13},{11,51,42}},
>>>                                 {{2011,10,17},{17,59,44}},
>>>                                 {{2011,3,16},{13,18,58}},
>>>                                 33206,1,3,0,0,0,0},
>>>                             "/handler.yaws",
>>>                             "c:/Temp/harmony/script/../www/handler.yaws",
>>>                             "/",undefined,undefined,"text/html",
>>>                             "/handler.yaws",undefined}
>>>
>>> The file handler.yaws is the entry point of our app and is called on
>>> every request. When I run the test with 100 or less virtual users I
>>> don't see these errors. So how can it be "Missing permission for reading
>>> the file, or for searching one of the parent directories" as the error
>>> is described in the file:read_file documentation?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> Martin
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