Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Burgess
Yes indeed, thank you for sticking around. Two voices is not "all users" of course. I am receptive to your frustrations, and what I get out of your discussion is that maybe we need to make better information (always true so no news there). The main problem with the discussion was that cfengine

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread michoski
On 2/12/10 12:53 PM, "Mark Burgess" wrote: > Cfengine 3 takes the view that you should have a language that expresses *safe > convergence* and does not remove the ability of the user to express a > configuration > without lifting the lid and programming. Cfengine 3 = promises + patterns with > kno

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Burgess
So something you think you saw 5 years ago is a reason to not to invest in the future? Wow. I saw recently a reference to a older version of cfengine that had growing memory signature (but it was never allowed to run and stabilize) but then it was compared to Puppet (as is so common these days

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread michoski
On 2/12/10 6:45 AM, "Matt Richards" wrote: > I believe it is a time related issue. For a test, I had the policy server > connect to the client's cf-serverd continually for several hours without any > issue. > > I cannot say where the memory issue was. I did not have cf-serverd compiled in > debug

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
I believe it is a time related issue. For a test, I had the policy server connect to the client's cf-serverd continually for several hours without any issue. I cannot say where the memory issue was. I did not have cf-serverd compiled in debug mode, so there are no symbols in the core file. Howe

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
Well, I can't say if it is a memory leak or not as this is the first time I am seeing this. I will monitor cf-serverd to see if the memory increases over time. Restarting the server might indeed work, there have been some machines that I have restarted before the month and they are still going f

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Gus Tofwin
Hi Is this a time related issue or a per connection issue? Sounds like a per connection issue. I myself have not seen this in v3 but it would be interesting to have a some machines connect on a 5 minute intervals with a few copies or something to generate a weighted connection. To see if this is re

Re: cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Mark Burgess
Matt, are you saying there is a memory leak, or that there is some weird memory resource allocation on AIX? Could you work around by restarting the server once a week? Matt Richards wrote: > Greetings, > > cf-serverd core dumped on all my AIX servers after about a month of > running. After look

cf3.03 - cf-serverd (AIX) core dumps after a month

2010-02-12 Thread Matt Richards
Greetings, cf-serverd core dumped on all my AIX servers after about a month of running. After looking at the core dump, it seems it is a rather common issue. cf-serverd over time seems to accumulate too much data to be held in a single memory segment. Recompiling with the compiler flag "-bmaxd