[Lispweb] The Common Lisp Directory finally crashed after 823 days.

[Marc Battyani]

Robert Synnott wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Marc Battyani
> <marc.battyani at fractalconcept.com> wrote:
>   
>> [Is this list still somewhat alive?]
>>
>>  The Common Lisp Directory (http://www.cl-user.net) lisp process crashed
>>  yesterday after 823 days of continuous service.
>>
>>  In these 2 years and 93 days, the same lisp process (LispWorks on Linux
>>  Debian) served 273M requests without any problem. Even the crash was not
>>  really lisp's fault as it was caused by a swap disk problem which caused
>>  the kernel to kill a lot of processes.
>>
>>  During these 823 days, I had to restart Apache every few months and the
>>  firewall router every several days. I also got several electric power
>>  outages but fortunately none longer than the 3h of UPS battery time.
>>  BTW this shows than Debian is also a stable platform for this kind of
>>  applications.
>>
>>  So the CLD lisp process uptime experiment is now over and I will move
>>  the CLD to a better place than a simple server in my basement.
>>
>>  Marc
>>     
> Well done!
>
> A new record, I suspect.
>
> As a matter of interest, does it use one of the standard servers, or
> did you roll your own
I use my own webapp server with Apache and mod_lisp:
.http://www.fractalconcept.com/ilc2002-marc-battyani.pdf
 
Now it would be called an Ajax framework but I don"t even know if the
acronym already existed in 2000/2002.

Marc