## March, 2019

Fri Mar 01, 2019 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2019-03-01

- I checked IITA’s 259 Feb 14 records from last month for duplicates using Atmire’s Duplicate Checker on a fresh snapshot of CGSpace on my local machine and everything looks good
- I am now only waiting to hear from her about where the items should go, though I assume Journal Articles go to IITA Journal Articles collection, etc…
- Looking at the other half of Udana’s WLE records from 2018-11
  - I finished the ones for Restoring Degraded Landscapes (RDL), but these are for Variability, Risks and Competing Uses (VRC)
  - I did the usual cleanups for whitespace, added regions where they made sense for certain countries, cleaned up the DOI link formats, added rights information based on the publications page for a few items
  - Most worryingly, there are encoding errors in the abstracts for eleven items, for example:
  - 68.15% � 9.45 instead of 68.15% ± 9.45
  - 2003�2013 instead of 2003–2013
- I think I will need to ask Udana to re-copy and paste the abstracts with more care using Google Docs

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## February, 2019

Fri Feb 01, 2019 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2019-02-01

- Linode has alerted a few times since last night that the CPU usage on CGSpace (linode18) was high despite me increasing the alert threshold last week from 250% to 275%—I might need to increase it again!
- The top IPs before, during, and after this latest alert tonight were:

    # zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "01/Feb/2019:(17|18|19|20|21)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
        245 207.46.13.5
        332 54.70.40.11
        385 5.143.231.38
        405 207.46.13.173
        405 207.46.13.75
       1117 66.249.66.219
       1121 35.237.175.180
       1546 5.9.6.51
       2474 45.5.186.2
       5490 85.25.237.71

- `85.25.237.71` is the “Linguee Bot” that I first saw last month
- The Solr statistics the past few months have been very high and I was wondering if the web server logs also showed an increase
- There were just over 3 million accesses in the nginx logs last month:

    # time zcat --force /var/log/nginx/* | grep -cE "[0-9]{1,2}/Jan/2019"
    3018243

    real    0m19.873s
    user    0m22.203s
    sys     0m1.979s

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## January, 2019

Wed Jan 02, 2019 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2019-01-02

- Linode alerted that CGSpace (linode18) had a higher outbound traffic rate than normal early this morning
- I don’t see anything interesting in the web server logs around that time though:

    # zcat --force /var/log/nginx/*.log /var/log/nginx/*.log.1 | grep -E "02/Jan/2019:0(1|2|3)" | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 10
         92 40.77.167.4
         99 210.7.29.100
        120 38.126.157.45
        177 35.237.175.180
        177 40.77.167.32
        216 66.249.75.219
        225 18.203.76.93
        261 46.101.86.248
        357 207.46.13.1
        903 54.70.40.11

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## December, 2018

Sun Dec 02, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-12-01

- Switch CGSpace (linode18) to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK
- I manually installed OpenJDK, then removed Oracle JDK, then re-ran the Ansible playbook to update all configuration files, etc
- Then I ran all system updates and restarted the server

## 2018-12-02

- I noticed that there is another issue with PDF thumbnails on CGSpace, and I see there was another Ghostscript vulnerability last week

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## November, 2018

Thu Nov 01, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-11-01

- Finalize AReS Phase I and Phase II ToRs
- Send a note about my dspace-statistics-api to the dspace-tech mailing list

## 2018-11-03

- Linode has been sending mails a few times a day recently that CGSpace (linode18) has had high CPU usage
- Today these are the top 10 IPs:

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## October, 2018

Mon Oct 01, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-10-01

- Phil Thornton got an ORCID identifier so we need to add it to the list on CGSpace and tag his existing items
- I created a GitHub issue to track this #389, because I’m super busy in Nairobi right now

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## September, 2018

Sun Sep 02, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-09-02

- New PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.5
- I’ll update the DSpace role in our Ansible infrastructure playbooks and run the updated playbooks on CGSpace and DSpace Test
- Also, I’ll re-run the `postgresql` tasks because the custom PostgreSQL variables are dynamic according to the system’s RAM, and we never re-ran them after migrating to larger Linodes last month
- I’m testing the new DSpace 5.8 branch in my Ubuntu 18.04 environment and I’m getting those autowire errors in Tomcat 8.5.30 again:

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## August, 2018

Wed Aug 01, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-08-01

- DSpace Test had crashed at some point yesterday morning and I see the following in `dmesg`:

    [Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] Out of memory: Kill process 1394 (java) score 668 or sacrifice child
    [Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] Killed process 1394 (java) total-vm:15601860kB, anon-rss:5355528kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB
    [Tue Jul 31 00:00:41 2018] oom_reaper: reaped process 1394 (java), now anon-rss:0kB, file-rss:0kB, shmem-rss:0kB

- Judging from the time of the crash it was probably related to the Discovery indexing that starts at midnight
- From the DSpace log I see that eventually Solr stopped responding, so I guess the `java` process that was OOM killed above was Tomcat’s
- I’m not sure why Tomcat didn’t crash with an OutOfMemoryError…
- Anyways, perhaps I should increase the JVM heap from 5120m to 6144m like we did a few months ago when we tried to run the whole CGSpace Solr core
- The server only has 8GB of RAM so we’ll eventually need to upgrade to a larger one because we’ll start starving the OS, PostgreSQL, and command line batch processes
- I ran all system updates on DSpace Test and rebooted it

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## July, 2018

Sun Jul 01, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-07-01

- I want to upgrade DSpace Test to DSpace 5.8 so I took a backup of its current database just in case:

    $ pg_dump -b -v -o --format=custom -U dspace -f dspace-2018-07-01.backup dspace

- During the `mvn package` stage on the 5.8 branch I kept getting issues with java running out of memory:

    There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.

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## June, 2018

Mon Jun 04, 2018 by Alan Orth in Notes

## 2018-06-04

- Test the DSpace 5.8 module upgrades from Atmire (#378)
  - There seems to be a problem with the CUA and L&R versions in `pom.xml` because they are using SNAPSHOT and it doesn’t build
- I added the new CCAFS Phase II Project Tag `PII-FP1_PACCA2` and merged it into the `5_x-prod` branch (#379)
- I proofed and tested the ILRI author corrections that Peter sent back to me this week:

    $ ./fix-metadata-values.py -i /tmp/2018-05-30-Correct-660-authors.csv -db dspace -u dspace -p 'fuuu' -f dc.contributor.author -t correct -m 3 -n

- I think a sane proofing workflow in OpenRefine is to apply the custom text facets for check/delete/remove and illegal characters that I developed in March, 2018
- Time to index ~70,000 items on CGSpace:

    $ time schedtool -D -e ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 [dspace]/bin/dspace index-discovery -b

    real    74m42.646s
    user    8m5.056s
    sys     2m7.289s

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