Using K2 Server

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pikala_ said on Mar 3, 2004 at 4:07 AM :

Couple of things that were essential to get K2 running in our environment (Solaris 8)

- Start K2 server with [cfhome]/lib/startk2server script, not with k2server command (K2_MODE=SEARCH environment variable is needed!)

- numListeners in k2server.ini must be larger than "Maximum number of simultaneous requests" in CF Administrator. I suggest adding 10 to that number. CF doesn't seem to work well when there are no K2 threads left to handle additional search queries.

- ulimit -n 1024 (or more) should be included in K2 start scripts if there are many collections and K2 gives error messages when starting.

Blckburn said on Sep 25, 2004 at 1:03 PM :

An undocumented issue involving the use of K2 server, CFMX and Unix will cause CFMX to crash (reproduced by Macromedia Support - turned in as a high-priority bug).

1) If you conduct a CFSEARCH while your registered K2server is not online CFMX will immediately crash. Macromedia now has #isK2serveronline()# as a variable and this can be used in a CFIF (if not running do not conduct the search).

Also, while CFMX will auto-restart, K2server does not, and the next CFSEARCH will crash CFMX again. We had to write a shell script to check the K2server every 3 minutes and re-start if necessary.