Re: cfengine watchdog is not biting

Thanks for filing the ticket. :D

On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 6:34:15 AM UTC-6 Xander Cage wrote:

> ticket created -> https://northerntech.atlassian.net/browse/CFE-4335
>
>
> On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 at 11:11:20 AM UTC+1 Xander Cage wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At times the cfengine watchdog script is unable to resolve hanging 
>> cf-agents. the reason is that if the system is under high load the watchdog 
>> "hangs" because it reads his own stale pid file and is doing simply 
>> nothing. 
>>
>> example:
>>
>> i had 332 hanging cf-agent processe but the watchdog log just shows this.
>>
>> Tue Feb 20 10:57:00 CET 2024 Initiating watchdog 6816488
>> Tue Feb 20 10:57:00 CET 2024 Aborting execution of watchdog 6816488, 
>> existing watchdog process 16450014 running
>> Tue Feb 20 10:58:00 CET 2024 Initiating watchdog 44499432
>> Tue Feb 20 10:58:00 CET 2024 Aborting execution of watchdog 44499432, 
>> existing watchdog process 16450014 running
>>
>> after deleting the pid file...
>>
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:00 CET 2024 Initiating watchdog 25756150
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:01 CET 2024 Found cf-execd not running
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:03 CET 2024 Found 332 occurrences of cf-execd 
>> terminating unresponsive cf-agent
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:04 CET 2024 Found 2 symptoms, threshold (0) breached.
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:06 CET 2024 Initiating apoptosis
>> Tue Feb 20 10:59:10 CET 2024 Initiating anastasis
>>
>> i guess there is room for impovement, as this can bring a system down 
>> quite easyily.
>>
>> wbr
>>
>> chris
>>
>>

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