Cfengine uses pthreads, not processes. so the number of processes should be constant.
nwat...@symcor.com wrote: > 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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > CONFIDENTIALITY WARNING > This communication, including any attachments, is for the exclusive use of > addressee and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information. If you > are not the intended recipient, any use, copying, disclosure, dissemination > or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended > recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this > communication and destroy all copies. > > AVERTISSEMENT RELATIF À LA CONFIDENTIALITÉ > Ce message, ainsi que les pièces qui y sont jointes, est destiné à l’usage > exclusif de la personne à laquelle il s’adresse et peut contenir de > l’information personnelle ou confidentielle. Si le lecteur de ce message n’en > est pas le destinataire, nous l’avisons par la présente que toute diffusion, > distribution, reproduction ou utilisation de son contenu est strictement > interdite. Veuillez avertir sur-le-champ l’expéditeur par retour de courrier > électronique et supprimez ce message ainsi que toutes les pièces jointes. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
