Re: random collector hangs

Mike Fisher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.cricket.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ed Ravin wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:01:18PM -0400, Mike Fisher wrote:
>   
>> Running 
>> with loglevel=debug revealed nothing unusual.  The log simply stops 
>> where the process hangs.  Running strace against the hung process always 
>> gives
>>
>> 	recvfrom(4,
>>     
>
> What's socket 4?  It'll be earlier in the strace, or much easier,
> do an "lsof -p PID" against the hung process to see what sockets
> it has open.
>   

I'm assuming it's the UDP socket that's used for SNMP traffic:

collector 26699 cricket    4u  IPv4 348216            UDP *:51640

hence my comment below...

>   
>> ...  Given the strace output, I'm thinking the 
>> issue may be down in the SNMP module somewhere, but I won't know for 
>> sure without more work.
>>     
>
> Dumb ass idea but it might work - switch from the default SNMP library
> to Net-SNMP's library.  The Net-SNMP code has been tested against
> modern platforms, and is less likely to have 64-bit porting bugs.
>   
That's a possibility.  I'll give it a shot when I get back to it.

Mike



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