nearby.org.uk blog

Small update to the Gazetteer file hosted on the Downloads page. Rather embarrassingly the previous version missed out some large towns and cities.

Just a quick note to apologize for the sketchy availability of certain site functions, of late

Basically it seems there is some sort of memory leak in Perl and/or my scripts, so they where eating away at memory. I noticed this, but all inspections showed there was plenty of memory was available, so it’s been many head-scratching hours later that realised there might be some limits imposed outside of my virtual machine, so upon further investigation have found had passed the soft-limit and steadily working towards the hard-limit on something called privvmpages, so that CGI scripts where getting very little chance to run.

While haven’t sorted the root cause, now at least know how to check the current status can can restart the whole machine if getting close…

Hopefully soon will get my diploma in emergency server maintenance…

As the number of scripts increases on this site, the homepage has begun to become kinda unweildly, so have started thinking of a new design, better, worse?

Now what I would really like is for a kind designer to step in an create a better version. I can do the functionality, but design skills are somewhat lacking, it’s a problem I have with many of the sites I’m involved in, making the functionality accessible but not overwhelming!