#9 Long delay adding alias on RPi

[Todd Andrews]

Continued from dialog exchanged with user nospam on this ticket.

I'm noticing that NCIDD on my raspi now takes over 2 minutes to "Add Alias" and I only have about 2100 call records in the log file.

nospam sent log via private email attachment.

nospam provided the following info:

$ wc -l /var/log/cidcall.log
2089 /var/log/cidcall.log
$ ls -l /var/log/cidcall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176894 Apr 27 19:16 /var/log/cidcall.log

Obfuscated relevant ncidd.log lines:

REQ: UPDATES
Begin: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
End: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
/usr/bin/cidupdate -a /etc/ncid/ncidd.alias -c /var/log/cidcall.log < /dev/null 2>&1 --multi < /dev/null 2>&1
401 Start of data requiring ACCEPT or REJECT
INFO: There was 1 change to /var/log/cidcall.log
INFO: 
INFO: (NAMEDEP) Changed "Hangup" to "SPAM" for 19999999999 1 time
410 End of data
WRK: ACCEPT LOGS
for f in /var/log/cidcall.log.*[0-9]; do mv $f.new $f; done [12:45:57]
mv /var/log/cidcall.log.new /var/log/cidcall.log [12:45:57]

[Todd Andrews]

Hi nospam,

I just noticed your command lines didn't have the asterisks for wildcards. Here are those lines to execute again:

wc -l /var/log/cidcall.log*
ls -l /var/log/cidcall.log*

[nospam]

$ wc -l /var/log/cidcall.log
2095 /var/log/cidcall.log
$ ls -l /var/log/cidcall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177382 Apr 29 14:25 /var/log/cidcall.log

[Todd Andrews]

Hi nospam,

Attached .tar file contains a modified ncidd binary called ncidd-1.4a. It changes some of the timestamps. To install, transfer it to your RPi and put it in your home directory. Then type:

sudo tar xf ~/ncidd-1.4a.tar -C /

This will put it in /usr/sbin. To test, stop your running instance of ncidd and launch this new one:

sudo ncidd-1.4a -D4 -L /tmp/ncidd-temp2.txt

Duplicate the delay in adding an alias, wait until NCIDpop refreshes the call history, then stop ncidd-1.4a using ctrl-c. Send us /tmp/ncidd-temp2.txt via private email attachment (jlc@users.sf.net and tandrews@users.sf.net).

Lastly, launch your normal instance of ncidd.

[Todd Andrews]

Hi nospam,

Is this still an issue for you?

[nospam]

Yes and No. I have purged the database to make the add alias feature work quicker. I'm trying to keep it under 1000 records. Over that it takes a long time to "add alias".

Mike

On 2017-11-14, 11:51 AM, "Todd Andrews" tandrews@users.sf.net wrote:

Hi nospam,

Is this still an issue for you?

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** [support-requests:#9] Long delay adding alias on RPi**

**Status:** open
**Group:** v1.0_(example)
**Created:** Sat Apr 29, 2017 09:40 PM UTC by Todd Andrews
**Last Updated:** Mon Nov 13, 2017 05:27 PM UTC
**Owner:** Todd Andrews

Continued from dialog exchanged with user nospam on [this ticket](https://sourceforge.net/p/ncid/feature-requests/19/).

> I'm noticing that NCIDD on my raspi now takes over 2 minutes to "Add Alias" and I only have about 2100 call records in the log file.

nospam sent log via private email attachment.

nospam provided the following info:
~~~
$ wc -l /var/log/cidcall.log
2089 /var/log/cidcall.log
$ ls -l /var/log/cidcall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176894 Apr 27 19:16 /var/log/cidcall.log
~~~

Obfuscated relevant ncidd.log lines:
~~~
REQ: UPDATES
Begin: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
End: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
/usr/bin/cidupdate -a /etc/ncid/ncidd.alias -c /var/log/cidcall.log < /dev/null 2>&1 --multi < /dev/null 2>&1
401 Start of data requiring ACCEPT or REJECT
INFO: There was 1 change to /var/log/cidcall.log
INFO: 
INFO: (NAMEDEP) Changed "Hangup" to "SPAM" for 19999999999 1 time
410 End of data
WRK: ACCEPT LOGS
for f in /var/log/cidcall.log.*[0-9]; do mv $f.new $f; done [12:45:57]
mv /var/log/cidcall.log.new /var/log/cidcall.log [12:45:57]
~~~

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[Todd Andrews]

Hi Mike,

We're brainstorming about this issue. Which client or clients do you use when adding an alias? NCIDpop, the Universal NCID Client (a.k.a. ncid.sh), or something else?

[nospam]

NCIDpop on OSX. I don't use any other clients

On 2017-11-18, 4:51 PM, "Todd Andrews" tandrews@users.sf.net wrote:

Hi Mike,

We're brainstorming about this issue. Which client or clients do you use when adding an alias? NCIDpop, the Universal NCID Client (a.k.a. ncid.sh), or something else?

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** [support-requests:#9] Long delay adding alias on RPi**

**Status:** open
**Group:** v1.0_(example)
**Created:** Sat Apr 29, 2017 09:40 PM UTC by Todd Andrews
**Last Updated:** Tue Nov 14, 2017 04:51 PM UTC
**Owner:** Todd Andrews

Continued from dialog exchanged with user nospam on [this ticket](https://sourceforge.net/p/ncid/feature-requests/19/).

> I'm noticing that NCIDD on my raspi now takes over 2 minutes to "Add Alias" and I only have about 2100 call records in the log file.

nospam sent log via private email attachment.

nospam provided the following info:
~~~
$ wc -l /var/log/cidcall.log
2089 /var/log/cidcall.log
$ ls -l /var/log/cidcall.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176894 Apr 27 19:16 /var/log/cidcall.log
~~~

Obfuscated relevant ncidd.log lines:
~~~
REQ: UPDATES
Begin: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
End: Executing /usr/bin/cidupdate [12:43:23]
/usr/bin/cidupdate -a /etc/ncid/ncidd.alias -c /var/log/cidcall.log < /dev/null 2>&1 --multi < /dev/null 2>&1
401 Start of data requiring ACCEPT or REJECT
INFO: There was 1 change to /var/log/cidcall.log
INFO: 
INFO: (NAMEDEP) Changed "Hangup" to "SPAM" for 19999999999 1 time
410 End of data
WRK: ACCEPT LOGS
for f in /var/log/cidcall.log.*[0-9]; do mv $f.new $f; done [12:45:57]
mv /var/log/cidcall.log.new /var/log/cidcall.log [12:45:57]
~~~

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[Todd Andrews]

OK, thanks. The current thinking is to convert the call log updater (cidupdate) from a Perl script to a C program.

[John L. Chmielewski]

The cidupdate script was converted to a C program and will be in NCID releas 1.11.

[Ed Attfield]

cidupdate was changed from a script to a C program in 1.11