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Re: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System Error

Hi Adam,
The deletion of the files should help in our case as we actually have quite a lot of files that became obsolete when our editorial staff standardised author names, e.g. changed an initial to a full first name when the relevant information was available.
The person_view field is filled automatically with the content of the creators, editors and translators fields, something I adopted from a colleague's EPrints configuration (I can't really remember why, probably to have all names in one field).
Ideally, it should be possible to only use the entries in the person_view field with <ubt>yes</ubt>, but unfortunately this is an optional field and we have many entries imported from other systems without the correct ubt flag and I'm not sure if this is always changed by the editorial staff. I'm going to talk to my colleagues about it and try your suggestion out with an additional view on our test installation.
Thanks for all your ideas to improve our repository (ERef is used as the university's bibliography), they are appreciated. 

Verena



Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 15:15:13 +0000
From: Adam Field <Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Eprints-tech Digest, Vol 91, Issue 43
To: "eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk" <eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <7C5A3308-DE97-49BC-A1F3-10E1EFF3663E@jisc.ac.uk>
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deletion of old files is good, but not a full solution (you are likely to be crawled by all sorts of robots, so all files will be generated).  This will only be a solution if there are lots of files from old configuration that were never deleted.

generate menus won't help either, I'm afraid.  It'll just regenerate the menus which isn't connected to the problem you're having.

I've had a peek at the XML of one of your records and made some assumptions about the nature of your repository.  Have you thought of filtering the person_view field so that it only contains institutional authors.  For example, https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/15081/ contains:

     <person_view>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Bornkamm</family>
           <given>Joachim</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Br?mmelmeyer</family>
           <given>Christoph</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Br?nneke</family>
           <given>Tobias</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Bultmann</family>
           <given>Friedrich</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Busch</family>
           <given>D?rte</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Derleder</family>
           <given>Peter</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Ernst</family>
           <given>Stefan</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Hirsch</family>
           <given>G?nter</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>H?rmann</family>
           <given>G?nter</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Kohte</family>
           <given>Wolfhard</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Maier</family>
           <given>Arne</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Metz</family>
           <given>Rainer</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Rott</family>
           <given>Peter</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Schmidt-Kessel</family>
           <given>Martin</given>
         </name>
         <id>martin.schmidt-kessel@uni-bayreuth.de</id>
         <ubt>yes</ubt>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Schwintowski</family>
           <given>Hans-Peter</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Stadler</family>
           <given>Astrid</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Tamm</family>
           <given>Marina</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Tiffe</family>
           <given>Achim</given>
         </name>
       </item>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Tonner</family>
           <given>Klaus</given>
         </name>
       </item>
     </person_view>

You'd get good utility from your repository if it was only:

     <person_view>
       <item>
         <name>
           <family>Schmidt-Kessel</family>
           <given>Martin</given>
         </name>
         <id>martin.schmidt-kessel@uni-bayreuth.de</id>
         <ubt>yes</ubt>
       </item>
     </person_view>

I'm assuming you really only care deeply about people with the ubt flag set to 'yes'.


[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


From: <eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>> on behalf of Verena Mattes <verena.mattes@ub.uni-bayreuth.de<mailto:verena.mattes@ub.uni-bayreuth.de>>
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Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2016 14:37
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Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Eprints-tech Digest, Vol 91, Issue 43

Hi Martin,

The deletion of older files is definitely a good idea, I'm looking at
that now.

Not sure about the --generate menus option, but I'm going to try it out
with our Eprints test repository.

Thanks!

Verena



Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:18:12 +0200
From: martin.braendle@id.uzh.ch<mailto:martin.braendle@id.uzh.ch>
Subject: [EP-tech] Antwort: Re: Problems with view generation: EPrints
System Error
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Hi Verena,

did you try out the --generate menus  option of generate_views? This
reduces the number of files considerably.

Also, in our nightly cron job, we delete all files that are older than 24
hours.

Best regards,

Martin

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Von: Verena Mattes <verena.mattes@ub.uni-bayreuth.de<mailto:verena.mattes@ub.uni-bayreuth.de>>
An: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Datum: 27/04/2016 10:54
Betreff: Re: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System
              Error
Gesendet von: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk<mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk>



Hi Adam,

For now, my colleagues in the IT service centre solved the problem by
raising the number of files permitted in one directory on our Netapp,
but that is only a temporary solution. Almost 340.000 files in one
directory are just too many, so I'll have to find a way to split the
person view into groups somehow.

Your suggestion of checking the number of variations should be a first
step in reducing the number of files. Here's our current view
configuration, which I'm going to change by taking away the DEFAULT
variation:


         {
                  id => "person",
                  hideempty => 0,
                  allow_null => 0,
                  menus => [
                          {
                                  fields => [ "person_view_name" ],
                                  mode => "sections",
                                  grouping_function =>

"EPrints::Update::Views::group_by_first_character",

                                  group_range_function =>

"EPrints::Update::Views::cluster_ranges_40",

                                  new_column_at => [40],
                                  open_first_section => 1,
                          },
                          ],
                  order => "-date;res=year/title/publication/book_title",
                  hideup => 0,
                  nocount => 0,
                  notimestamp => 0,
                  include => 1,
                  variations => [
                          "type",
                          "date;truncate=4,reverse",
                          "DEFAULT",
                  ],
                  citation => "view",            # Views mit

Volltext-Hinweis!

          },


Thanks for all your help!

Verena



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Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 08:35:49 +0000
From: Adam Field <Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk<mailto:Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk>>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System
Error
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My previous suggestion wasn't right and won't work exactly as

expected on

reflection.


What happens when you run generate_views from the command line?
Just how many files do you have in the directory on the hard disk?

Can you paste in the browse view configuration?  It may be that turning

of variations will solve this.


[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


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Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System

Error


Hi Alan and Adam,

Thanks for your suggestions. We are running EPrints 3.3.11 and the free
space on our hard disk is not a problem. I checked with a colleague and
he confirmed my guess that the problem is caused by the number of files
in the directory, obviously the maximum number was reached last week and
no further files can be created.
Does anybody have a quick idea on how to divide files for one view, the
person view, to different directories? Would it be possible to define
different views for groups of letters, e.g. A-D or something like that?

Thanks!

Verena



Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:58:47 +0000
From: Adam Field <Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk<mailto:Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk><mailto:Adam.Field@jisc.ac.uk>>
Subject: Re: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System
Error
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What specific version of EPrints are you running?  What is line 1550

of /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Update/Views.pm


Also, silly question, but how much free space do you have on your hard

disk?


[Jisc]<http://www.jisc.ac.uk/>

Adam Field
SHERPA services analyst developer


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Subject: [EP-tech] Problems with view generation: EPrints System Error

Hello,

since last week, we've had problems with the view generation for our
author/person view. These problems specifically concern the views for
new author names, which are not generated, while the views for already
existing author names are updated.

For each author name concerned, there is an entry in the apache error

log:


Error writing

to

/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kaiser=3AMario=3A=3A.export:

   File too large

------------------------------------------------------------------
       at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Update/Views.pm line 1550
              EPrints::Update::Views::output_files

('EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x7fb0663688d0)',
'/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kai...',
'XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment=SCALAR(0x7fb06a7e5938)',
'/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kai...',
'XML::LibXML::Element=SCALAR(0x7fb06a45f160)',
'/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kai...',
'XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment=SCALAR(0x7fb06a7e5938)',
'/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kai...',
'XML::LibXML::DocumentFragment=SCALAR(0x7fb06a668aa8)', ...) called
at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Update/Views.pm line 935

              EPrints::Update::Views::update_view_list

('EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x7fb0663688d0)',
'/usr/share/eprints3/archives/ubt_eref/html/de/view/person/Kai...', 'de',
'EPrints::Update::Views=HASH(0x7fb06a6863f0)', 'ARRAY(0x7fb064b78c70)')
called at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Update/Views.pm line 259

              EPrints::Update::Views::update_view_file

('EPrints::Repository=HASH(0x7fb0663688d0)', 'de',
'/view/person/Kaiser=3AMario=3A=3A.html',
'/view/person/Kaiser=3AMario=3A=3A.html') called
at /usr/share/eprints3/perl_lib/EPrints/Apache/Rewrite.pm line 513



EPrints::Apache::Rewrite::handler('Apache2::RequestRec=SCALAR

(0x7fb06a471710)') called at -e line 0

              eval {...} called at -e line 0

In this specific case, the author's name is linked to only 2 EPrints
entries, so it is unlikely that this file would be particularly large.

Does anybody have an idea concerning this? I would appreciate any help.

Thanks!

Verena

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