#489: Display server load info in Trac
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Reporter: mloskot | Owner: sac@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: SAC
Keywords: trac |
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Trac installation for [https://svn.boost.org/ Boost] displays close to
upper right corner '''Server Load Average''' information (see attached
screenshot). Having in mind that we were experiencing some server load
issues, perhaps it would be good to display this information in OSGeo Trac
instances too.
I'm not sure if this feature is provided by Trac and only some config
setting needs to be switched on or perhaps it's a plugin. If there is an
interest but it's a problem with finding where this information comes
from, let me know and I'll ask Boost folks.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/489>
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#489: Display server load info in Trac
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Reporter: mloskot | Owner: sac@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: SAC
Resolution: | Keywords: trac
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Comment (by hamish):
Even if not used, it would be useful to ping to Boost webadmins and ask
how they do it.. and why.
{{{
cat /proc/loadavg
}}}
Hamish
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#489: Display server load info in Trac
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Reporter: mloskot | Owner: sac@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: SAC
Resolution: | Keywords: trac
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Comment (by mloskot):
I've got in touch with administrators of Boost Trac and they were very
kind to provide me with details. Here we go:
* They confirmed server load issues:
''Yes, we were experiencing the load issues in the Boost Trac even though
we are hosting one Trac instance in our server for now. I think the load
issues are from the web spider crawling the huge boost SVN repository
tree. We disallowed the crawling and we will start to open up little by
little watching the load average.''
* How to set up the server load display
This is based on their customized template(theme.html) in the Trac. They
put the following code in ''boost_trac_path/templates/theme.html'' of trac
instance after copying it from the Trac installation tree to
''boost_trac_path/templates'':
{{{
<div id="main">
<div id="ctxtnav" class="nav">
<h2>Context Navigation</h2>
<ul>
<li py:for="i, elm in enumerate(chrome.ctxtnav)"
class="${classes(first_last(i,
chrome.ctxtnav))}">$elm</li>
<!-- Added for displaying load average -->
<?python
f = open(r'/path/to/file/loadaverage.txt')
loadavg = f.read()
f.close()
?>
<py:if test="loadavg" >
<li class="last">Server Load Average:
<b>${loadavg}</b>
</li>
</py:if>
<!-- Added for displaying load average -->
</ul>
<hr />
</div>
}}}
Next, they configure set up a cronjob to generate the loadaverage on
''/path/to/file/loadaverage.txt'' at every 10 mins.
{{{
[19:03]: templates % cat /path/to/file/loadaverage.txt
1.03
[19:03]: templates %
}}}
That's it and thanks to Boost admins!
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/489#comment:2>
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#489: Display server load info in Trac
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Reporter: mloskot | Owner: sac@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Component: SAC
Resolution: | Keywords: trac
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Comment (by mloskot):
I've just got a message from
[http://www.boost.org/users/people/dave_abrahams.html Dave Abrahams] and
Dave confirms they've experienced problems too:
''FWIW, BoostPro also has that problem. We're investigating ways to
reduce Trac's memory usage, and also looking into alternatives such as
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmine redmine].''
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#489: Display server load info in Trac
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Reporter: mloskot | Owner: sac@…
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Component: Systems Admin
Resolution: fixed | Keywords: trac
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Changes (by crschmidt):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
I think the answer here is "make trac not be so loaded." this is why we
moved servers. If we feel that there is still really a need for this, feel
free to reopen this ticket.
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