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href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/" rel="home">CGSpace Notes</a></h1> <p class="lead blog-description">Documenting day-to-day work on the <a href="https://cgspace.cgiar.org">CGSpace</a> repository.</p> </div> </header> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-8 blog-main"> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-05/">May, 2016</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-05-01T23:06:00+03:00">Sun May 01, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2016-05-01">2016-05-01</h2> <ul> <li>Since yesterday there have been 10,000 REST errors and the site has been unstable again</li> <li>I have blocked access to the API now</li> <li>There are 3,000 IPs accessing the REST API in a 24-hour period!</li> </ul> <pre><code># awk '{print $1}' /var/log/nginx/rest.log | uniq | wc -l 3168 </code></pre> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-05/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-04/">April, 2016</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-04-04T11:06:00+03:00">Mon Apr 04, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2016-04-04">2016-04-04</h2> <ul> <li>Looking at log file use on CGSpace and notice that we need to work on our cron setup a bit</li> <li>We are backing up all logs in the log folder, including useless stuff like solr, cocoon, handle-plugin, etc</li> <li>After running DSpace for over five years I’ve never needed to look in any other log file than dspace.log, leave alone one from last year!</li> <li>This will save us a few gigs of backup space we’re paying for on S3</li> <li>Also, I noticed the <code>checker</code> log has some errors we should pay attention to:</li> </ul> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-04/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-03/">March, 2016</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-03-02T16:50:00+03:00">Wed Mar 02, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2016-03-02">2016-03-02</h2> <ul> <li>Looking at issues with author authorities on CGSpace</li> <li>For some reason we still have the <code>index-lucene-update</code> 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</li> <li>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</li> </ul> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-03/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-02/">February, 2016</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-02-05T13:18:00+03:00">Fri Feb 05, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2016-02-05">2016-02-05</h2> <ul> <li>Looking at some DAGRIS data for Abenet Yabowork</li> <li>Lots of issues with spaces, newlines, etc causing the import to fail</li> <li>I noticed we have a very <em>interesting</em> list of countries on CGSpace:</li> </ul> <p><img src="/cgspace-notes/2016/02/cgspace-countries.png" alt="CGSpace country list" /></p> <ul> <li>Not only are there 49,000 countries, we have some blanks (25)…</li> <li>Also, lots of things like “COTE D`LVOIRE” and “COTE D IVOIRE”</li> </ul> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-02/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-01/">January, 2016</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2016-01-13T13:18:00+03:00">Wed Jan 13, 2016</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2016-01-13">2016-01-13</h2> <ul> <li>Move ILRI collection <code>10568/12503</code> from <code>10568/27869</code> to <code>10568/27629</code> using the <a href="https://gist.github.com/alanorth/392c4660e8b022d99dfa">move_collections.sh</a> script I wrote last year.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Update GitHub wiki for documentation of <a href="https://github.com/ilri/DSpace/wiki/Maintenance-Tasks">maintenance tasks</a>.</li> </ul> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2016-01/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2015-12/">December, 2015</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2015-12-02T13:18:00+03:00">Wed Dec 02, 2015</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2015-12-02">2015-12-02</h2> <ul> <li>Replace <code>lzop</code> with <code>xz</code> in log compression cron jobs on DSpace Test—it uses less space:</li> </ul> <pre><code># 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 </code></pre> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2015-12/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article class="blog-post"> <header> <h2 class="blog-post-title"><a href="https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2015-11/">November, 2015</a></h2> <p class="blog-post-meta"><time datetime="2015-11-23T17:00:57+03:00">Mon Nov 23, 2015</time> by Alan Orth in <i class="fa fa-tag" aria-hidden="true"></i> <a href="/cgspace-notes/tags/notes" rel="tag">Notes</a> </p> </header> <h2 id="2015-11-22">2015-11-22</h2> <ul> <li>CGSpace went down</li> <li>Looks like DSpace exhausted its PostgreSQL connection pool</li> <li>Last week I had increased the limit from 30 to 60, which seemed to help, but now there are many more idle connections:</li> </ul> <pre><code>$ psql -c 'SELECT * from pg_stat_activity;' | grep idle | grep -c cgspace 78 </code></pre> <p></p> <a href='https://alanorth.github.io/cgspace-notes/2015-11/'>Read more →</a> </article> <article 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