Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: process miscounting? Author: matter Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,16494,16632#msg-16632
I was wrong in my case of process miscounting. I did a little code modification as adding "ps -ef" command after the process count has been complete did not catch the problem. I modified the regex matching function to spit out what it was matching and I happened to catch what I thought was a bug: # ./cf-agent -Kf /var/cfengine/cluster/test.cf regexp:clcomd teststring: root 27630 12140 5 Feb 18 - 475:29 /usr/es/sbin/cluster/clcomd -d regexp:clcomd teststring: root 56176 27630 0 09:41:30 - 0:00 /usr/es/sbin/cluster/clcomd -d !! Process count for 'clcomd' was out of promised range (2 found) So cfengine did what I told it to do. It was me who was in error. I had no idea that this process would spawn another from itself (see the pid group number). It happens a couple of times a day, and cfengine must have hit it right at the time of the spawning, even though it was a running for only a second. Looking in the logs for that process, it does indeed have activity at 09:41:30, so it must spawn another process for remote connections. It would appear cfengine knows more about this process than I did. Sorry for the false alarm. I am humbled. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
