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<ul>
<li>New <a href="https://jdbc.postgresql.org/documentation/changelog.html#version_42.2.5">PostgreSQL JDBC driver version 42.2.5</a></li>
<li>I&rsquo;ll update the DSpace role in our <a href="https://github.com/ilri/rmg-ansible-public">Ansible infrastructure playbooks</a> and run the updated playbooks on CGSpace and DSpace Test</li>
<li>Also, I&rsquo;ll re-run the <code>postgresql</code> tasks because the custom PostgreSQL variables are dynamic according to the system&rsquo;s RAM, and we never re-ran them after migrating to larger Linodes last month</li>
<li>I&rsquo;m testing the new DSpace 5.8 branch in my Ubuntu 18.04 environment and I&rsquo;m getting those autowire errors in Tomcat 8.5.30 again:</li>
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<li>DSpace Test had crashed at some point yesterday morning and I see the following in <code>dmesg</code>:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>[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
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<li>Judging from the time of the crash it was probably related to the Discovery indexing that starts at midnight</li>
<li>From the DSpace log I see that eventually Solr stopped responding, so I guess the <code>java</code> process that was OOM killed above was Tomcat&rsquo;s</li>
<li>I&rsquo;m not sure why Tomcat didn&rsquo;t crash with an OutOfMemoryError&hellip;</li>
<li>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</li>
<li>The server only has 8GB of RAM so we&rsquo;ll eventually need to upgrade to a larger one because we&rsquo;ll start starving the OS, PostgreSQL, and command line batch processes</li>
<li>I ran all system updates on DSpace Test and rebooted it</li>
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  <h2 id="2018-07-01">2018-07-01</h2>
<ul>
<li>I want to upgrade DSpace Test to DSpace 5.8 so I took a backup of its current database just in case:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>$ pg_dump -b -v -o --format=custom -U dspace -f dspace-2018-07-01.backup dspace
</code></pre><ul>
<li>During the <code>mvn package</code> stage on the 5.8 branch I kept getting issues with java running out of memory:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>There is insufficient memory for the Java Runtime Environment to continue.
</code></pre>
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<ul>
<li>Test the <a href="https://tracker.atmire.com/tickets-cgiar-ilri/view-ticket?id=560">DSpace 5.8 module upgrades from Atmire</a> (<a href="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/378">#378</a>)
<ul>
<li>There seems to be a problem with the CUA and L&amp;R versions in <code>pom.xml</code> because they are using SNAPSHOT and it doesn&rsquo;t build</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>I added the new CCAFS Phase II Project Tag <code>PII-FP1_PACCA2</code> and merged it into the <code>5_x-prod</code> branch (<a href="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/pull/379">#379</a>)</li>
<li>I proofed and tested the ILRI author corrections that Peter sent back to me this week:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>$ ./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
</code></pre><ul>
<li>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 <a href="/cgspace-notes/2018-03/">March, 2018</a></li>
<li>Time to index ~70,000 items on CGSpace:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>$ time schedtool -D -e ionice -c2 -n7 nice -n19 [dspace]/bin/dspace index-discovery -b                                  

real    74m42.646s
user    8m5.056s
sys     2m7.289s
</code></pre>
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<li>I cleared the Solr statistics core on DSpace Test by issuing two commands directly to the Solr admin interface:
<ul>
<li>http://localhost:3000/solr/statistics/update?stream.body=%3Cdelete%3E%3Cquery%3E*:*%3C/query%3E%3C/delete%3E</li>
<li>http://localhost:3000/solr/statistics/update?stream.body=%3Ccommit/%3E</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Then I reduced the JVM heap size from 6144 back to 5120m</li>
<li>Also, I switched it to use OpenJDK instead of Oracle Java, as well as re-worked the <a href="https://github.com/ilri/rmg-ansible-public">Ansible infrastructure scripts</a> to support hosts choosing which distribution they want to use</li>
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<li>I tried to test something on DSpace Test but noticed that it&rsquo;s down since god knows when</li>
<li>Catalina logs at least show some memory errors yesterday:</li>
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<ul>
<li>Export a CSV of the IITA community metadata for Martin Mueller</li>
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    <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2018-02-01T16:28:54+02:00">Thu Feb 01, 2018</time> by Alan Orth in 
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<ul>
<li>Peter gave feedback on the <code>dc.rights</code> proof of concept that I had sent him last week</li>
<li>We don&rsquo;t need to distinguish between internal and external works, so that makes it just a simple list</li>
<li>Yesterday I figured out how to monitor DSpace sessions using JMX</li>
<li>I copied the logic in the <code>jmx_tomcat_dbpools</code> provided by Ubuntu&rsquo;s <code>munin-plugins-java</code> package and used the stuff I discovered about JMX <a href="/cgspace-notes/2018-01/">in 2018-01</a></li>
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  <h2 id="2018-01-02">2018-01-02</h2>
<ul>
<li>Uptime Robot noticed that CGSpace went down and up a few times last night, for a few minutes each time</li>
<li>I didn&rsquo;t get any load alerts from Linode and the REST and XMLUI logs don&rsquo;t show anything out of the ordinary</li>
<li>The nginx logs show HTTP 200s until <code>02/Jan/2018:11:27:17 +0000</code> when Uptime Robot got an HTTP 500</li>
<li>In dspace.log around that time I see many errors like &ldquo;Client closed the connection before file download was complete&rdquo;</li>
<li>And just before that I see this:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>Caused by: org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.PoolExhaustedException: [http-bio-127.0.0.1-8443-exec-980] Timeout: Pool empty. Unable to fetch a connection in 5 seconds, none available[size:50; busy:50; idle:0; lastwait:5000].
</code></pre><ul>
<li>Ah hah! So the pool was actually empty!</li>
<li>I need to increase that, let&rsquo;s try to bump it up from 50 to 75</li>
<li>After that one client got an HTTP 499 but then the rest were HTTP 200, so I don&rsquo;t know what the hell Uptime Robot saw</li>
<li>I notice this error quite a few times in dspace.log:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>2018-01-02 01:21:19,137 ERROR org.dspace.app.xmlui.aspect.discovery.SidebarFacetsTransformer @ Error while searching for sidebar facets
org.dspace.discovery.SearchServiceException: org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError: Cannot parse 'dateIssued_keyword:[1976+TO+1979]': Encountered &quot; &quot;]&quot; &quot;] &quot;&quot; at line 1, column 32.
</code></pre><ul>
<li>And there are many of these errors every day for the past month:</li>
</ul>
<pre><code>$ grep -c &quot;Error while searching for sidebar facets&quot; dspace.log.*
dspace.log.2017-11-21:4
dspace.log.2017-11-22:1
dspace.log.2017-11-23:4
dspace.log.2017-11-24:11
dspace.log.2017-11-25:0
dspace.log.2017-11-26:1
dspace.log.2017-11-27:7
dspace.log.2017-11-28:21
dspace.log.2017-11-29:31
dspace.log.2017-11-30:15
dspace.log.2017-12-01:15
dspace.log.2017-12-02:20
dspace.log.2017-12-03:38
dspace.log.2017-12-04:65
dspace.log.2017-12-05:43
dspace.log.2017-12-06:72
dspace.log.2017-12-07:27
dspace.log.2017-12-08:15
dspace.log.2017-12-09:29
dspace.log.2017-12-10:35
dspace.log.2017-12-11:20
dspace.log.2017-12-12:44
dspace.log.2017-12-13:36
dspace.log.2017-12-14:59
dspace.log.2017-12-15:104
dspace.log.2017-12-16:53
dspace.log.2017-12-17:66
dspace.log.2017-12-18:83
dspace.log.2017-12-19:101
dspace.log.2017-12-20:74
dspace.log.2017-12-21:55
dspace.log.2017-12-22:66
dspace.log.2017-12-23:50
dspace.log.2017-12-24:85
dspace.log.2017-12-25:62
dspace.log.2017-12-26:49
dspace.log.2017-12-27:30
dspace.log.2017-12-28:54
dspace.log.2017-12-29:68
dspace.log.2017-12-30:89
dspace.log.2017-12-31:53
dspace.log.2018-01-01:45
dspace.log.2018-01-02:34
</code></pre><ul>
<li>Danny wrote to ask for help renewing the wildcard ilri.org certificate and I advised that we should probably use Let&rsquo;s Encrypt if it&rsquo;s just a handful of domains</li>
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<li>Uptime Robot noticed that CGSpace went down</li>
<li>The logs say &ldquo;Timeout waiting for idle object&rdquo;</li>
<li>PostgreSQL activity says there are 115 connections currently</li>
<li>The list of connections to XMLUI and REST API for today:</li>
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