Ron, It looks to me like you have a promise that's getting hung on something. Run `cf-agent -KIv` (cap k, cap i, little v) and watch the output. You should be able to see where it's hanging.
-- Brian On Jun 21, 2012, at 8:01 AM, Ron Parker <rdpar...@gmail.com> wrote: > In testing that the promises for a given machine were sufficient to > reconfigure it from scratch, I did a fresh OS install to a VM, > bootstrapped CFE and manually started cf-agent. After about 30 > minutes and the fourth email from the system, it had converged. I > noted a few things that were missing, e.g. ssh configuration. So I > made the policy changes over the course of the day. > > Last night before leaving I rolled the VM back to the baseline OS > install and bootstrapped CFE to test my changes. After about 10 > minutes I got an email reporting what happened during initial run but > no reports thereafter. This morning I get in and find the machine has > 182 (and climbing) copies of cf-execd and cf-agent. Other than my > seemingly minor tweaks the only difference I am aware of is that the > second time I did not run cf-agent manually at all, I let cf-execd > start the processes. > > I suspect it is somehow related to initial package installation and > there is a possibly related discussion on the list from last year > https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19505,19598, but I saw no clear > resolution. > > My questions are, how can I see what the active copy of cf-agent is > doing that it did not complete? It does not have any child processes > showing up in pstree. > > The second question is how may I prevent this in the future but still > have the system converge in a reasonable amount of time? > > -- > Ron Parker > Don't type things you find on the Internet into your computer! > :(){ :|:&};: > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
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