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    #31
    Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

    If you are using AllwaysUp, then you can set a delay in the startup on the "startup" tab in the "Pause for" field. If they all try to startup at the same time, I find that some will not complete, so I space out the startups at about 30 second intervals and they all start successfully. So, first one is 30, second is 60, third is 90 and so on.
    Pat Bremkamp
    MindKicks Consulting

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      #32
      Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

      The only time I've seen our app server stop responding is when it climbs over 1200mb memory usage (Our Alwaysup is set to restart the app server at 1100mb). What is the memory usage of the instances that stop responding? Also, your load balancer is set up to use all 6 of your instances, right?
      Mike Brown - Contact Me
      Programmatic Technologies, LLC
      Programmatic-Technologies.com
      Independent Developer & Consultant​​

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        #33
        Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

        We have not been having memory issues anymore, Mike, since Alpha identified a dll that was causing the issues we were having with memory. But, anyway, we also have not been using Always Up and my IT technician set that up last night and is spacing out the startups as you suggested, Pat. Thanks. We'll see what happens today...
        Carol King
        Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
        http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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          #34
          Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

          Carol,

          FWIW, I have several servers, each with 4 instances of Alpha and use Always Up. On each server, I set the instances to restart nightly starting around 12midnight and space them out about 5-10 minutes apart. Jerry Brightbill recommended doing that so that each restart grabs a different processing core. I also use the AU setting to restart only if the instance has been idle for 5 minutes (user adjustable) and keep retrying for 60 minutes. That way there is less risk that someone will be kicked off.

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            #35
            Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

            Jay, thanks. We installed Always Up last night and maybe we didn't space them enough. Our issue is that each instance does start and even present pages, but a few of our 6 always quit presenting pages in the morning even though they appear to be running. Then we stop and start them manually and they seem to stay up the rest of the day. So it's something to do with the auto startups, maybe.... So we'll try yours (and Jerry's suggestion) and space the startups farther apart. AND your suggestion about checking if instance has been idle sounds good.
            Carol King
            Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
            http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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              #36
              Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

              Update: my server technician discovered that Always Up would allow us to start up each instance of the web server in specified cores. (Hopefully I'm using the right terminology). Since he did that, we have had over a week of no issues with the web servers stopping and my customers are reporting much improved performance. I'm thinking we have the whole memory/slowdown/servers stopping issue conquered!
              Carol King
              Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
              http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                #37
                Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                Great news Carol. One other thing you can do with Always Up is to have your technician use a program I created and uploaded to the Code Archive section which monitors your actual web pages to determine that the WAS server is responding and if not it triggers a restart of the server using the sanity check option of AlwaysUp. Using this and automated nightly restarts I've had my WAS server running for months without intervention. The thread for the CheckAlphaServer utility I created is here: http://www.alphasoftware.com/alphafo...ys-Up-users%29
                Last edited by compuaid; 01-28-2015, 07:29 AM.
                Brad Weaver, President
                ComputerAid International
                Ottawa ON Canada
                Versailles KY USA
                www.compuaid.com

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                  #38
                  Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                  Thanks so much, Brad! I will have my server technician take a look at this for sure! Meanwhile, we are still doing well without any of our multiple instances stopping. I find myself a bit irritated that we had to spend so many months (years?) wrestling with multi users and slow downs and servers stopping without being told by Alpha to use multiple instances and to use Always Up to start them in different cores. Since Alpha has that limitation of not using cores efficiently, it would be good for them to educate their users about a workaround to handle this.
                  Carol King
                  Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                  http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                    #39
                    Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                    Hi Carol,

                    Can you ask your technician how he assigns the cores. I noticed that option but have never had memory leak issues so didn't have the need to try it. I'm curious how many cores/instances you are running on each server and if he assigns the cores sequentially (i.e. 8,7,6,5) or alternates (8,6,4,2) leaving room in between assignments for the report server.

                    Thanks,
                    Jay

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                      #40
                      Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                      Jay, I think I should start a new thread about multiple instances of web server in order to share what we've learned through all of our trials. Once I get the info from my technician, I'll start that thread.
                      Carol King
                      Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                      http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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                        #41
                        Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                        Originally posted by kingcarol View Post
                        Jay, I think I should start a new thread about multiple instances of web server in order to share what we've learned through all of our trials. Once I get the info from my technician, I'll start that thread.
                        Good idea ...having the thread title "Multiple App Server Instances" would make it easy to find during a search.
                        Mike Brown - Contact Me
                        Programmatic Technologies, LLC
                        Programmatic-Technologies.com
                        Independent Developer & Consultant​​

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                          #42
                          Re: Memory just keeps climbing up all day on the Alpha App server

                          Here's the new thread about multiple app server instances that include the documentation by my server technician about how we came to having a stable environment:
                          http://www.alphasoftware.com/alphafo...the-Web-Server
                          Carol King
                          Developer of Custom Homebuilders' Solutions (CHS)
                          http://www.CHSBuilderSoftware.com

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