Re: [Treebase-devel] treebase problem this afternoon

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

So after failing to upload several large files to production, I tried uploading a large file to dev. (10 taxa x 66472 characters). The upload page did a proxy time-out, but the request kept going on and on. Here it shows it some 6 hours later, consuming a lot of memory.

It's odd because I don't think this problem used to happen. TreeBASE has files that are considerably larger that this one -- e.g. we had a submission on September 7. And I think a much larger file was uploaded about two weeks ago. 

So something weird has happened, with the result that TreeBASE is now underperforming. 

In two hours from now this wii all be reset because dev will be refreshed from production.  But clearly there is a problem (a) because tasks that TreeBASE used to be able to do, presently it cannot do, and (b) because what it cannot do seems to tie up a lot of memory and CPU, crippling it. 

Mattison: Can you think of any changes in terms of memory allocation (or recent upgrades) that may be affecting performance? e.g. were SQL timeouts shortened to deal with the hits we were getting on the API last week?  

It's all very vexing. 

bp