Typo on Textdrive

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Is anyone running Typo on Textdrive? The damn thing keeps dying on me
and I
just got a slap on the wrist for setting up a cron job that was running
a
bash script that checked if it was running and relaunched if necessary.

If you aren’t on Textdrive are there any Typo friendly hosts?

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The good news is that I¹m on TxD(nicola) and running typo
The bad news for you is that it is highly customized

Btw I too have a cron job checking to see if life is good … How often
did
you have yours set to run?

-Linda

On 10/13/06 3:57 PM, “Sterling A.” [email protected]

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On 10/13/06, Sterling A. [email protected] wrote:

Is anyone running Typo on Textdrive? The damn thing keeps dying on me and I
just got a slap on the wrist for setting up a cron job that was running a
bash script that checked if it was running and relaunched if necessary.

I’m in a similar boat; things were good for a while, but now they’re
intolerable. Lots of 500s, lots of restarts. Typo is just too beefy
to run on TextDrive in its current state. (In fact, I’m off writing a
minimal personal personal publishing platform; I’d like something that
fits in 5Mb of memory instead of 50Mb.)

If you aren’t on Textdrive are there any Typo friendly hosts?

DreamHost looks better, but YMMV.

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@Dreamhost

We see lots of 500s on Typo unless you rewrite the dispatcher to
ignore the requests to stop :wink:

It’s an alright host… they have been having tons of network
problems but they’re very open about it.

For toy sites and/or personal blogs, they can be cool… plus their
diskspace + bandwidth for the price is tough to beat anywhere else.
Lots of features for a shared host.

Jake

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I did a little write up on this. The main memory hog is “sparklines”
because of its dependency on RMagick. Removing the text filter for
sparklines should do the trick.

http://www.stevelongdo.com/articles/2006/08/04/typo-4-0-and-memory-reduction

Also since patching RubyGems I have had wonderfully stable processes on
TxD. My typo blog has gone for than a month without a restart. You
will
want to prune the log files once in a while though. “truncate -s -100M
*.log” in the /log directory is nice for that.

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We are using it, but not within the out of the box Typo. We have added
SNA and use it to show the qactivity of connections

-Linda
443 506 9106
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“Steve L.” [email protected] writes:

I did a little write up on this. The main memory hog is “sparklines”
because of its dependency on RMagick. Removing the text filter for
sparklines should do the trick.

Ah… sparklines. There’s a feature that’s driven more painful changes
in Typo than almost anything.

Does anyone actually use it?

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Paul B. wrote:

If you aren’t on Textdrive are there any Typo friendly hosts?

DreamHost looks better, but YMMV.

Ah.
If this is what I think it is then I’ve been having a similar problem on
Dreamhost. The public/dispatch.fcgi doesn’t seem to want to re-start
reliably. That’s with the patch described at
http://blog.aidenbordner.com/articles/2006/07/24/getting-typo-4-0-0-running-on-dreamhost