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I’ve found work. Details here.

Here is the patch I just comitted which reduces the amount of RAM consumed. [dan@ngaio:/usr/websites/freshports.org/classes] $ cvs di -ub display_commit.php Index: display_commit.php =================================================================== RCS file: /home/repositories/freshports-1/classes/display_commit.php,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -b -r1.8 display_commit.php — display_commit.php 10 Jul 2007 11:39:07 -0000 1.8 +++ display_commit.php 22 Oct 2007 17:22:23 -0000 @@ -87,19 +87,16 @@ $i=0; $GlobalHideLastChange

I was scanning the error logs this morning, looking for anything unusual. I found it: [Mon Oct 22 12:31:10 2007] [error] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 512 bytes) in display_commit.php on line 91 I have seen this before, but could not recall where. I also could not

FreshPorts encountered its first corrupted cvs-all email today. It handled it correctly. It errored out, put the emails aside in the retry queue, and sent me a notice. Af first, I thought the email had been corrupted on the way into my system. But after checking the above URL, I realised it was bad at

New categories arise from time to time. The descriptions for all categories are held in www/en/ports/categories. There are two situations when FreshPorts needs to fetch this file from CVS: When a new port is created. When www/en/ports/categories is updated. I have case #2 coded. Case #1 is not as easy to do. In case #2,

The tk category now has a member! This category was added to www/en/ports/categories about six months ago. It was this commit that did it. The previously reported problem with virtual categories repeated in production. That is to be expected. The proposed solution exists only on my private dev server at home. Regretably, the solution has

I’m looking for work. I’m a software developer with lots of sysadmin experience. My ideal job would require multiple skills and involve development of high availability strategy, some coding, database design, and some sysadmin work, although not necessarily in that order. My resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php Will consider relocation.

It was quite some time ago that I [finally] moved FreshPorts onto the new server. Today I moved FreshSource over too. Both websites use the same database instance. That is, each website is a different view of the same database. Now that FreshSource is over here, we should be able to start doing a lot