Updates
Last patches have been installed tonight – and I ran AUTOGEN to recalculate the system settings based on feedback. It caused NPAGEDYN be increased signficantly, and after last reboot (there were two: one after Update 5, and one after the other three) freepages was lower than before. While typing this, I have a program running that monitors MySQL to see where it breaks – if it does. It certainly looks faster.
The MySQL problems might be caused by PTHREAD or CRTL – both are heavily used by MySQL according the VMS-author (Jean Francois Pieronne) and Update 5 contains updates for both. I thought I had them installed, the PThread patch one anyway.
So far, nothing’s wrong – it hasn’t run for a long time so it might be fine today and cause trouble later on. The watcher is running so if things go wrong, I’ll just have to wait for a short time (15 minutes at most).
Current state: about 60% of WSQUO is used (77000 out of 131072) and it has been more (70%, or 92100). Well, time will tell what comes out of this 🙂
Clamav antivirus built
which wasn’t as straight forward as described. Expanding .TAR-GZ and untarring the resulting .TAR was no problem (the originally loaded .GZ was definitely broken) but building the products was another matter.
First, I started building BZIP2. There is a CONFIGURE procedure that ran fine and craetes a BUILD procedure, but I got compilation warnings that caused MMS to give up – and building failed, completely. But after I removed all files and untarred the package again, building went flawless. So now I got that libary 😀
Building Clamav has the same strcuture: First run the configure script and the Build one thereafter. However, Configure siganlled a fatl condition: I was still missing a library that had to be downloaded as well. After that had been installed, the configure script went on and I could start a BUILD. That gave a number of warnings and these may cause problems when running the programs. It might have to do with the C-compiler version:
$ cc/version
HP C V7.3-009 on OpenVMS Alpha V8.3
where the original may have been built with 6.5 (or earlier).
Now I only need to install it to test it – but that will have to wait until I’ve time enough: I still have to figure out how to integrate it with PMAS.
Web content
Some older tracks have been published and in the coming weeks, I hope to have done the backlog.
The program to replace the PHP code is getting along. All modules compile on both Alpha and Itanium (I got myself an account on HP’s testdrive) and I’m curently do some rework on the most important wones for this work. The testprogram compiles does link still fails. But we’re getting somewhere! (Walking is not that fast either)