Re: CFEngine Help: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread Ron Parker
The machine in question was running 3.3.3. On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM, wrote: > Forum: CFEngine Help > Subject: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent > Author: davidlee > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26261,26266#msg-26266 > > Sorry, my pr

CFEngine Help: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26261,26266#msg-26266 Sorry, my previous message may have confused two distinct things about managing this: Assuming 3.1.4 (or thereabouts) with

CFEngine Help: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread no-reply
Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent Author: davidlee Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,26261,26265#msg-26265 What version of cfengine? This might matter... see below. Over the last 15 months or so, our cfengine3 installation has grown

Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Burgess
As Mike pointed out NFS is a usual culprit. -- Sent from my Android phone with probably ridiculous and involuntary spelling corrections. Brian Bennett wrote: 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 t

Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread Brian Bennett
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 wrote: > In testing that the promises for a given m

Re: 180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Svoboda
Hey Ron I have the following in a promise. You may want to adjust the values of "ago" there. I execute cf-agent once an hour. If I see a cf-agent process older than 2 hours old, I have the current execution kill that process and I raise a class that I report on. You could use this same thing

180+ instances of cf-execd and cf-agent

2012-06-21 Thread Ron Parker
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,