Re: cfd doesn't accept any more connections (1.6.3)

[Mark . Burgess]

On 20 Jun, Oliver Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 10:53:57AM -0600, Graham Allan wrote:
>> In message <20010620112341.I41649@mutare.noc.clara.net> you wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know if a "me too" is at all helpful. I see the same behaviour
>> on our system, running cfd 1.6.2 (I know I should upgrade) on Tru64 UNIX
>> 4.0F.
> 
> If it rules out a problem at our site then it is indeed helpful ;-)
> 
>> I think it's not so much related to the length of time it runs, as how
>> many connections cfd has to service. The interval between the problem
>> occurring gets shorter as we add more cfengine clients to the network.
> 
> that's an interesting point. how many clients do you have connecting
> to that cfd server? We have about 10 that connect to that server (it's
> not the primary cfengine server) and it lasts a week or 10 days. They
> connect only every 4 hours.
> 
>> Killing cfd and restarting it does always fix it for a while.
> 
> Agreed. 
> 
> I wonder if you could do a backtrace on your process when it gets
> stuck and see if it's getting stuck at the same place? That would
> be interesting to compare.
> 
> The author had suggested to me that it might perhaps be a threading
> issue on FreeBSD, but since you are running Tru64 that would now seem
> not to be the case.
> 
> Thanks for your input Graham! :)
> 
> Ollie


I have 30 clients connecting every half hour and have never seen
a problem...I would guess something site dependent. Have you tried
setting AllowMultipleConnections? The anti-spamming features
should be turned off for trusted machines.

Mark

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