I thought I understood max_children for the agent but now I'm not so sure. Normally I do not specify max_children and during runs on Linux hosts I monitor the system using top. I've never seen more than one cf-agent process at a time. In an experiment I set max_children to ten. When cf-execd was invoked I expected to see perhaps more cf-agent processes but not more than ten. Instead the number of processes I saw was off the scale. The five minute load average climbed into the hundreds. The run completed and the agent processes disappeared. The run log showed some unusual entries.
Error while renaming /var/cfengine/state/cf_procs !!! System error for rename: "No such file or directory" Also, some promises appear to have been run multiple times. Was my original assumption regarding max_children incorrect? Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465
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