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Subject: Re: Embperl logging "out of control"
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From: Tim_Grant@vwr.com
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:14:46 -0500
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>We had an incident like that back in our development of our pages.  We
>tracked it down to someone having set EMBPERL_DEBUG to -1 in one of
>their pages, and assumed that the automatic garbage collection at the
>end of the page would fix it up.  So whenever an apache child showed
>that page, it'd start logging like this.

Great tip. Doesn't seem to be what's happeninig here.

>I found it by grepping the log file for EMBPERL_DEBUG, if I remember
>correctly.  Note that it didn't actually log the section that did it to
>us on the *first* pass through that page for any child.  But it did, of
>course, tattle if a child showed the same page twice.

Grepping our logs for EMBPERL_DEBUG returned no results.

>Of course, if the bug was in perl code, rather than one of our pages, we
>wouldn't have caught it that way.  Instead, we'd have caught it from my
>earlier grep of all of our perl code and all of the non-EmbPerl library
>code for EMBPERL_DEBUG.

Grepping our code for EMBPERL_DEBUG returned no results.

>Note that, while it wouldn't solve your issue, you could make a web page
>to report those same variables, and when you found out which one was
>wrong, modify some pages to fix it.

We have a report page. Here's an excerpt:

EMBPERL_COMPARTMENT test
EMBPERL_DEBUG 0
EMBPERL_LOG /www/logs/www.vwrsp.com.embperl.log
EMBPERL_OPTIONS 1024
EMBPERL_SESSION_HANDLER_CLASS no

...

REDIRECT_EMBPERL_COMPARTMENT test
REDIRECT_EMBPERL_DEBUG 0
REDIRECT_EMBPERL_LOG /www/logs/www.vwrsp.com.embperl.log
REDIRECT_EMBPERL_OPTIONS 1024
REDIRECT_EMBPERL_SESSION_HANDLER_CLASS no

When I look at that, it says to me that Embperl logging should be off. I've
reloaded the page a lot, and haven't seen the EMBPERL_DEBUG variable
change.

(BTW, I don't know what this redirect stuff is. I've seen very little
mention of it on the internet.)

>>I am assuming that all of your processing is within Apache.

Correct.

--
Regards,
Tim Grant
Application Developer, VWR International
610-719-7097


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