CGSpace Notes

Documenting day-to-day work on the CGSpace repository.

March, 2016

2016-03-02

  • Looking at issues with author authorities on CGSpace
  • For some reason we still have the index-lucene-update cron job active on CGSpace, but I’m pretty sure we don’t need it as of the latest few versions of Atmire’s Listings and Reports module
  • Reinstall my local (Mac OS X) DSpace stack with Tomcat 7, PostgreSQL 9.3, and Java JDK 1.7 to match environment on CGSpace server
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February, 2016

2016-02-05

  • Looking at some DAGRIS data for Abenet Yabowork
  • Lots of issues with spaces, newlines, etc causing the import to fail
  • I noticed we have a very interesting list of countries on CGSpace:

CGSpace country list

  • Not only are there 49,000 countries, we have some blanks (25)…
  • Also, lots of things like “COTE D`LVOIRE” and “COTE D IVOIRE”
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January, 2016

2016-01-13

  • Move ILRI collection 10568/12503 from 10568/27869 to 10568/27629 using the move_collections.sh script I wrote last year.
  • I realized it is only necessary to clear the Cocoon cache after moving collections—rather than reindexing—as no metadata has changed, and therefore no search or browse indexes need to be updated.
  • Update GitHub wiki for documentation of maintenance tasks.
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December, 2015

2015-12-02

  • Replace lzop with xz in log compression cron jobs on DSpace Test—it uses less space:
# cd /home/dspacetest.cgiar.org/log
# ls -lh dspace.log.2015-11-18*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 2.0M Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 387K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.lzo
-rw-rw-r-- 1 tomcat7 tomcat7 169K Nov 18 23:59 dspace.log.2015-11-18.xz
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November, 2015

2015-11-22

  • CGSpace went down
  • Looks like DSpace exhausted its PostgreSQL connection pool
  • Last week I had increased the limit from 30 to 60, which seemed to help, but now there are many more idle connections:
$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep idle | grep -c cgspace
78
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