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>    1. Re: RT2 Speed/performance problems. (Florian Weimer)
>    2. Re: RT2 Speed/performance problems. (Bruce Campbell)
>    3. RT Statistics Package Installation Help (Rajesh Menon)
>    4. Re: RT2 Speed/performance problems. (Maren S. Leizaola)
>    5. Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb (Jake Skinner)
>    6. Re: Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb (Darrin Walton)
>    7. Re: Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb (Jake Skinner)
>    8. installation problem (Kazu Kimura)
>    9. Deleting dead tickets (especially attachments) (Scott A. McIntyre)
>   10. RE: RT2 Speed/performance problems. (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Ale=B9_Mustar?=)
>   11. Re: Deleting dead tickets (especially attachments) (Simon Cozens)
>   12. Odd performance problem - returning from submissions. (Scott A.
McIntyre)
>   13. RE: RT2 Speed/performance problems. (Michael K. Brown)
>
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> Message: 1
> To: "Maren S. Leizaola" <maren at leizaola.com>
> Cc: Rich Lafferty <rich+rt at lafferty.ca>,
> "Rt-Users (E-mail)" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
> From: Florian Weimer <Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:01:50 +0200
>
> "Maren S. Leizaola" <maren at leizaola.com> writes:
>
> > The board is an ASUS P2BF-D (old but great board), with two PII 450Mhz,
> > the machine has 512MB of RAM, the disks are running on a promise raid
> > TX2-100. The disks are idle, the HTTP deamons eat CPU like there is no
> > tomorow, and they inflate themselves like zepplins, even with only one
> > user.
>
> Use mod_fastcgi instead.  Then you'll have to cope just with one
> growing process. :-)
>
> If you use mod_perl and the httpd children die too quickly (after too
> few process requests), then you incur the horrendous RT loading
> overhead on every second ticket or so.  This can kill your performance
> much more thoroughly than any other way (with the notable exception of
> an un-VACUUM-ed PostgreSQL database, of course).
>
> --
> Florian Weimer                   Weimer at CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
> University of Stuttgart           http://CERT.Uni-Stuttgart.DE/people/fw/
> RUS-CERT                          fax +49-711-685-5898
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:36:13 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Bruce Campbell <bruce_campbell at ripe.net>
> To: "Rt-Users (E-mail)" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe I am picky our just a lazy admin, but I believe that decent
> > > system sould be maintainable, should be able install them in a snap,
> > > reconfigure them, see what it is doing. You should be able to rebuild
in
> > > under one hour or less from nothing to live.
> >
> > It sounds like you're lazy.  Despite what Larry Wall says, it isn't
> > _always_ a virtue.
>
> Now now children, you're starting to sound like the qmail list.  _Thats_
> the unfortunate aspect, not that someone has found RT2 not to their
> liking.
>
> Maren, its unfortunate that you've found RT2 to be unusable.  Should you
> wish to return to RT, the rt-users list can assist you provided that you
> ask for assistance and provide details of the problem.
>
> For rather lightweight ticket/problem managers, theres gnats or
> {w,www}req.  For medium weight, bugzilla or RT1 with a bit of spit and
> polish to add the requested features (there are hints on how to do this in
> rt-users about a year or more ago).
>
> Kind regards,
>
> --
>                              Bruce Campbell
RIPE
>                    Systems/Network Engineer
NCC
>                  www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B
Operations/Security
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 3
> Reply-To: <rajmen at olemiss.edu>
> From: "Rajesh Menon" <rajmen at olemiss.edu>
> To: <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:14:41 -0500
> Subject: [rt-users] RT Statistics Package Installation Help
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup RT Statistics (Simon Cozen's) package on RT 2.0.14,
> running on a Red Hat 7.2 box. Is there a way someone can help me with some
> installation guidelines. Looks like i installed all the required modules,
> including Apache::GD::Graph and made the modifications in the httpd.conf
> file.
>
> How do i get to the initial page?
>
> I can get to my RT page and i have the stats folder under <RT-PATH>/WebRT
> folder and i have the folder chart under <RT-PATH>/html folder.
>
> If i try to open http://<RT-PATH>/chart  it gives me and error in the
apache
> log "Undefined subroutine &Apache::GD::Graph::handler called"
>
> Where do i go from here? Any help / comments in this regard would be
highly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Raj
>
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 02:53:24 +0800 (HKT)
> From: "Maren S. Leizaola" <maren at leizaola.com>
> To: Bruce Campbell <bruce_campbell at ripe.net>
> Cc: "Rt-Users (E-mail)" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Bruce Campbell wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
> > >
> > > > Maybe I am picky our just a lazy admin, but I believe that decent
> > > > system sould be maintainable, should be able install them in a snap,
> > > > reconfigure them, see what it is doing. You should be able to
rebuild in
> > > > under one hour or less from nothing to live.
> > >
> > > It sounds like you're lazy.  Despite what Larry Wall says, it isn't
> > > _always_ a virtue.
> >
> > Now now children, you're starting to sound like the qmail list.  _Thats_
> > the unfortunate aspect, not that someone has found RT2 not to their
> > liking.
> >
> > Maren, its unfortunate that you've found RT2 to be unusable.  Should you
> > wish to return to RT, the rt-users list can assist you provided that you
> > ask for assistance and provide details of the problem.
>
> Right now I am thinking of engaging Jesse, the man himself, to prove me
> wrong...
>
> Let see.
>
> >
> > For rather lightweight ticket/problem managers, theres gnats or
> > {w,www}req.  For medium weight, bugzilla or RT1 with a bit of spit and
> > polish to add the requested features (there are hints on how to do this
in
> > rt-users about a year or more ago).
> >
>
> I will have a quick peak.
>
> Maren.
>
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > --
> >                              Bruce Campbell
RIPE
> >                    Systems/Network Engineer
NCC
> >                  www.ripe.net - PGP562C8B1B
Operations/Security
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 5
> From: "Jake Skinner" <Jake.Skinner at gribbles.com.au>
> To: "RT Users" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:12:30 +0930
> Subject: [rt-users] Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb
>
> It is failing when trying to create indexs - complaining that fields being
> used to index on aren't set to 'NOT NULL'
>
> RH7.2, mysql 3.22.32, rt 2.0.14
>
> Any help would be fantastic! :)
>
> jake
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 23:37:54 -0400
> From: Darrin Walton <darrinw at nixc.net>
> To: Jake Skinner <Jake.Skinner at gribbles.com.au>
> Cc: RT Users <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb
> Organization: NIXC, Inc.
>
>   |+ It is failing when trying to create indexs - complaining that fields
being
>   |+ used to index on aren't set to 'NOT NULL'
>   |+
>   |+ RH7.2, mysql 3.22.32, rt 2.0.14
>
> Did you read the README file?
>
> REQUIRED PACKAGES:
> [snip]
>
> o   A DB backend; MySQL is recommended ( http://www.mysql.com )
>         Currently supported:    Mysql 3.23.38 or newer.
>                                  (Some older releases had crippling SQL
bugs)
>                                 Postgres 7.1
>         Partially supported:    Oracle 8i
>
> Upgrade MySQL.
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 7
> From: "Jake Skinner" <Jake.Skinner at gribbles.com.au>
> To: "RT Users" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Mysql db creation hassles with tools/initdb
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:23:25 +0930
>
> > Did you read the README file?
>
> Ummm.... I thought I did ;)
>
> thanx
>
> (hiding and going red from embarressment) jake
>
>
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> Message: 8
> From: "Kazu Kimura" <kazu at kmn.co.jp>
> To: <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 13:59:53 +0900
> Organization: KMN
> Subject: [rt-users] installation problem
>
> All,
>
> I am still having problem with rt2 installation as follows.
>
> <Quote start>
> Congratulations. RT has been upgraded. You should now check-over
> /opt/rt2/etc/config.pm for any necessary site customization. Additionally,
> you should update RT's system database objects by running
>            /opt/rt2/etc/insertdata <version>
> where <version> is the version of RT you're upgrading from.
> /usr/bin/perl -I//opt/rt2/etc -I//opt/rt2/lib //opt/rt2/etc/insertdata
> Can't locate object method "new" via package "RT::Handle" at
> //opt/rt2/etc/inser
> tdata line 26.
> *** Error code 255
>
> Stop in /usr/home/kazu/rt-2-0-14.
> localhost#
> <Quote end>
>
> Do you have any suggestion on this?
>
> Regards,
> Kazu,
>
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:52:17 +0200
> From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <scott at xs4all.nl>
> To: RT-Users <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: [rt-users] Deleting dead tickets (especially attachments)
>
> Hi,
>
> About a year ago there was a reference on the list to a perl script for
> removing data from the database for dead tickets -- unfortunately, it
> looks like the web site where that was hosted, and perhaps the company
> itself, no longer exist.
>
> Does anyone have a copy?  Or, does anyone have a good reference to the
> location of a script/tool for pruning garbage out of a somewhat bloaty
> feeling MySQL database?
>
> As of last night to this morning I've noticed that adding new data to
> the database takes an unreasonable amount of time -- seconds to minutes,
> through the command line tool, so not an Apache/mod_perl problem this
> time.  My hunch is that the thousands of copies of viruses we're storing
> in our 604112148 byte Attachments.MYD may have something to do with
> this.
>
> I'm not entirely comfortable in SQL yet, so any help would be
> appreciated on doing this right; ideally I'd like to completely delete
> dead tickets older than X days, or something convenient like that...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott A. McIntyre
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 10
> From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?Ale=B9_Mustar?= <alesh at opensource-technologies.com>
> To: <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:06:10 +0200
> Organization: Opensource-Technologies
>
> Sorry to say this (don't want to start any flame war), but yer one hell
> of a lazy admin. What the hell do they pay you for?
>
> If you want to pull out the best of PHP, mysql, etc... There is more to
> it then just simple ./configure ; make ; make install.
>
> I admit that first i thought RT was a nightmare to set up, now I don't
> anymore...
>
> A.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com
> [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com] On Behalf Of Maren S. Leizaola
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 10:14 AM
> To: Dave Rolsky
> Cc: David C. Troy; Rt-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Maren S. Leizaola wrote:
> >
> > > Well I've optimized the tables when stuff has been deleted but other
>
> > > than that I am using mysql default installation. A totally dedicated
>
> > > machine.
> >
> > The default mysql config uses very little memory and doesn't take
> > advantage of multiple processors as well as it could.  Actually tuning
>
> > MySQL can have a big impact.
> >
> > I'd also recommend to anyone that they either use Mason 1.05 or
> > 1.1201, but not 1.10 or 1.11.  1.12 is also fine except it doesn't
> > work with Perl 5.00503.  The 1.10 and 1.11 releases have memory leaks
> > that can suck up some decent memory, so up- or down-grading is
> > definitely recommended.  If you're not using Mason for other
> > development, there's little reason to upgrade from 1.05 for those
> > currently using . 1.12 does offer a lot of cool new features, but it's
>
> > also slower.
> >
> > Of course, the chances that Mason was the bottleneck in Maren's case
> > are very small, since RT is most likely going to be DBMS-bound once
> > more than a small number of tickets have been created.
>
> Dave,
> Maybe I am picky our just a lazy admin, but I believe that
> decent system sould be maintainable, should be able install them in a
> snap, reconfigure them, see what it is doing. You should be able to
> rebuild in under one hour or less from nothing to live.
>
> This was what I was referring to that RT2 has gone in the wrong
> direction. The installation is a nightmare if you compare it to just
> about any other Open source system I have had on my machines during the
> past 8 years...
>
> Look at what you have above, you have to tune, mysql, mason, the right
> version, make sure that mode perl does this, make sure that apache kills
> the process after etc....
>
> I don't doubt that you guys love it and without it you would struggle.
> Well maybe it is just me. I like systems software like postfix, Nuke,
> that do their job and let me get on with what I should be doing.
>
> Cheers,
> Maren.
>
>
> >
> >
> > -dave
> >
> > /*==================
> > www.urth.org
> > we await the New Sun
> > ==================*/
> >
>
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> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 10:15:53 +0100
> From: Simon Cozens <rt at netthink.co.uk>
> To: "Scott A. McIntyre" <scott at xs4all.nl>
> Cc: RT-Users <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] Deleting dead tickets (especially attachments)
>
>
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>
> Scott A. McIntyre:
> > About a year ago there was a reference on the list to a perl script for
> > removing data from the database for dead tickets -- unfortunately, it
> > looks like the web site where that was hosted, and perhaps the company
> > itself, no longer exist.
> >
> > Does anyone have a copy?
>
> Yep. It's attached.
>
> --
> "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is
ancient.
> It's called 'rain'."
> -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion
>
> --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx
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> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=cleanup-dead
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> #
> # Steve Poirier - steve at inet-technologies.com
> # edited by Tim Allwine tallwine at oreilly.com
> # to use with RT2 and MySQL
>
> use strict;
> my $ticketnbr = 0;
>
> BEGIN { push @INC, "/usr/local/share/rt2/lib/"; do
"/usr/local/share/rt2/etc/config.pm"; }
> use RT;
> (my $x=RT::Handle->new)->Connect;
>
> my $dbh = $x->dbh() or die "Couldn't connect to RT database";
>
> my $sql = q{SELECT id FROM Tickets where Status=?};
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
> $sth->execute('dead');
>
> # proceed with deletion
>
> my $d_sth = $dbh->prepare('SELECT id FROM Transactions where Ticket=?');
> my $stid = $dbh->prepare('DELETE FROM Attachments WHERE TransactionId=?');
> my $sttrans = $dbh->prepare( 'DELETE FROM Transactions WHERE Ticket=?');
> my $stwatch = $dbh->prepare( 'DELETE FROM Watchers WHERE Value=?');
> my $stobjects =$dbh->prepare( 'DELETE FROM ObjectKeywords WHERE
ObjectId=?');
> my $stticket = $dbh->prepare( 'DELETE FROM Tickets WHERE id=?');
>
> open MAIL, '|mail -s "dead tickets" database at rt.oucs.ox.ac.uk' or die $!;
>
> print MAIL $sth->rows()," dead tickets were removed.\n\n";
>
> while ( my ($ticketid) = $sth->fetchrow_array() )  {
>     #print "\nticket $ticketid is dead. Deleting:  ";
>     $d_sth->execute($ticketid);
>
> # delete Attachments for this ticket
>     #print "Attachments. ";
>     while ( my ($transid) = $d_sth->fetchrow_array() )  {
> $stid->execute($transid);
>     }
>
> # delete Ticket in Transactions table
>     #print "Transactions. ";
>     $sttrans->execute($ticketid);
>
> # delete Ticket in ticket in Watchers table
>     #print "Watchers. ";
>     $stwatch->execute($ticketid);
>
> # delete Ticket in ObjectKeywords table
>     #print "ObjectKeywords. ";
>     $stobjects->execute($ticketid);
>
> # delete Ticket from the Tickets table
>     #print "Ticket. ";
>     $stticket->execute($ticketid);
>
>     $ticketnbr++;
> }
> #print "\nDone. Deleted $ticketnbr tickets.\n\n";
>
> exit;
>
>
> --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx--
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 14:21:39 +0200
> From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <scott at xs4all.nl>
> To: RT-Users <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: [rt-users] Odd performance problem - returning from submissions.
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks to Simon for that delete tickets script -- sadly, whilst it
> probably did help get rid of 6500 tickets that didn't need to be there,
> I'm still facing the same odd performance problem as earlier today.
>
> The symptom is simple:  Queries and searches are fine, but any
> changes/writes to the database seem to happen quickly, but both the
> command line rt tool and the web interface "stall" when waiting for the
> result.
>
> What's peculiar is that the changes do seem to happen fast; if I make
> a comment on a ticket and click on Submit, it stalls for several moments
> without updating the display -- however, if I have another rt window
> open and put in the ticket number that I just updated, the query returns
> quickly *with* the changes that are still 'Loading' in the other window.
>
> This is new behaviour from yesterday evening, which is why I felt it was
> some sort of a size issue with the database, poor indexing, etc...as a
> test I've built a new apache with fastcgi and am running it in parallel
> (to rule out mod_perl) and I felt the delay there as well, plus, as I
> say, the command line tools do the same.
>
> An rt --create produced this timing:
>
> real    2m1.148s
> user    0m0.850s
> sys     0m0.100s
>
>
> Which is obviously a bit drastic.  This is with rt 2-0-13, on a 1Ghz
> Celeron, with 512mb of RAM.  RedHat Linux 7.2, and the system is
> otherwise "idle" with a very low load average, enough free memory and no
> errors anywhere obvious as to disk errors (IDE, MAXTOR 6L040J2).
>
> Total number of tickets is about 39000 or so at the moment, with the
> entire rt2 database taking up about 625 megabytes in /var/lib/mysql...
>
> If anyone has any thoughts as to why just the writing/modifications
> would be producing such a noticeable delay, I'd very much like to hear
> them....in the mean time, I'll keep trying to pin this down a bit
> further.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Scott
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 13
> Date: 21 Aug 2002 10:15:30 -0400
> From: "Michael K. Brown" <michael.k.brown at alcatel.com>
> To: "Maren S. Leizaola" <maren at leizaola.com>
> Cc: "Rt-Users" <rt-users at lists.fsck.com>
> Subject: RE: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
>
> As a Non-IT person running a webserver with RT and PostNuke, I thought I'd
> wade into the discussion:
>
> First: I'm not a programmer, sys-admin, or have EVER had formal IT
training.
> I'm an advanced computer USER who happens to be a lab technician with an
> interest in computers.
>
> Second: I set up a webserver to support my lab users and environment.  I
> loaded a Dual Ultra-II (UltraSparc) with 512MB of RAM and a 4GB hard disk
> with Solaris 8, manually added the packages for GNU tools, PERL 5.6.1, and
> then used ApacheToolbox to help with installing Apache, MySQL, and all the
> required packages.  It all still required tweaking to get it all running
> properly with Solaris.  All of my Unix/PERL/PHP/MySQL skills are self
> taught, with a lot of help from google.ca and people on mailing lists like
> this one.
>
> Third: I installed RT (and I did fight with it to get all the dependancies
> working), but I thought it was worth it, because RT2 was the best that I
had
> seen out there, and because this list was active and people were very
> helpful in doing mods and fixes.
>
> Fourth: I modified RT2 and PostNuke to get them to do what I want them to
> do.  My RT pages load in 2 seconds typically, and my PostNuke pages load
in
> 3-5.  I'm still tweaking both systems as I learn new things from the
people
> on this list and on PostNuke.com.    What I've learned over my years of
> being a computer user is that nothing is ever perfect out-of-the-box, and
> you only get out of it what you put into it.  RT and PostNuke are both
very
> extensible, well-designed systems, and I think that you can get a lot from
> those systems if you're willing to put some time into them!  My $0.02
> worth... (before taxes!)
>
> Lastly, I would like to thank all the RT-User's Listers for all their
> assistance, especially Rich Lafferty, Phil Homewood, Michael Grubb, Mike
> Quitero, Smylers, Bruce Campbell and Paul Rossman (and anyone else who's
> helped me out in the past that I might have missed!)
>
> /Mike
> Lab Services
> Alcatel BND
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com
> [mailto:rt-users-admin at lists.fsck.com]On Behalf Of Maren S. Leizaola
> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 3:43 AM
> To: Rich Lafferty
> Cc: Rt-Users (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [rt-users] RT2 Speed/performance problems.
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Rich Lafferty wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:06:05PM +0800, Maren S. Leizaola
> <maren at leizaola.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > 3-10 seconds is the norm, for us it does not cut it.
> >
> > So yours takes 5-10x as long as mine when I use Mozilla, but runs on
> > faster hardware. Still think it's RT?
>
> Well this is what I see...
>
> The board is an ASUS P2BF-D (old but great board), with two PII 450Mhz,
> the machine has 512MB of RAM, the disks are running on a promise raid
> TX2-100. The disks are idle, the HTTP deamons eat CPU like there is no
> tomorow, and they inflate themselves like zepplins, even with only one
> user.
>
> I also think that RT UI is designed for large teams and the number of
> clicks at the interface are execessive for smaller support teams. Less
> clicks more speed more e-mails out. With RT1 we could respond about 10% of
> e-mails in under 5 mins, as it was quick and nimble.
>
> Cheers,
> Maren.
>
> >
> >   -Rich
> >
> > --
> > Rich
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> >
>
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