Folks after much investigation and plain old delete and reinstall I have nailed down my web server crashes to poormans cron. I run a innovation database on windows 2003 platform.
my initial error was IIS crashes and then when I tried with Apache it crashed too.
FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate 1073741825 bytes
[Sun Feb 18 22:50:28 2007] [warn] (OS 64)The specified network name is no longer available. : winnt_accept: Asynchronous AcceptEx failed.
I have increased the memory limit in php.ini to a large amount 100 MB. It still dint help.
I upgraded to drupal 5... removed all modules and slowly started adding mdoules. Its crashes too when I add poormanscron.
Tried every comibnation and it always fails at poormans cron.
so what do i need to do to fix this. I need poormans cron for crop scripts. please help. I am at a loss for any iother solutions
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issues here with that module also
I just got done posting about cron job for news feeds - I looked to the right where the newest posts are, and there was this one, moments before my own post. Let's hope this can be sorted out.
phew glad to hear and yet sad to hear
glad to hear i am not the only one. I dont seem to be getting to much support from the forum on this issue as I have posted similar ones alony my last few days of debugging.
Let me create a issue on the module and see what happens. I see a patch for race conditions
why not just set up a cron
why not just set up a cron job on the host machine ? rendering the need for poormans cron obselete ?
By George - I think I got it!
I hope this will work for you too
/usr/bin/wget -O - -q http://www.mydomain.com/cron.php
note that before the code that begins /usr there is a SPACE.
Also, if I go into cpanel, cron, and choose advanced, there's a 15 under minutes and * under everything else.
So far, no error messages in email and so far I think it's updating - at least the newest stories are at my site.