Re: max_children and cf3

2010-02-03 Thread NWatson
I'm definitely not using cf-runagent. body agent control { hostnamekeys => "true"; auditing => "true"; max_children => "3"; #max children cf-agents to spawn. maxconnections => "10"; #max connections to server. } Sincerely, -- Neil Watson 416-673-3465 Mark Burgess wrote on 2010-02

Re: max_children and cf3

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Burgess
The error message is unrelated. If you saw hundreds of cf-agent processes, then you did something badly wrong. This has nothing to do with the server. Or are you in fact talking about runagent? The message is not clear. There is an option to spawn multiple processes to *query* a server in runag

Re: max_children and cf3

2010-02-03 Thread NWatson
Mark Burgess wrote on 2010-02-03 11:07:30: > > Cfengine uses pthreads, not processes. so the number of processes > should be constant. I'm not well versed in processes and threads. Let's assume that top was showing me a mixture of processes and threads. Did each process spawn one or more t

Re: max_children and cf3

2010-02-03 Thread Mark Burgess
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