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From: | Martin Pala |
Subject: | Re: Monit definitely not waiting for stop scripts to complete... |
Date: | Wed, 5 Sep 2007 18:55:55 +0200 |
We even have a TODO item for the point 1. point: http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/next.php#27 Regarding the point 2. i think it could be good to make it optional. Thanks :) Martin On Sep 5, 2007, at 5:12 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
It should be fairly easy to change start to also become "synchronously". Synchronously in this context means that monit will wait in the same thread which started the process and poll- check for a pidfile to be created. This is how synchronously stop is handled today.The rationale for not waiting for a process to actually start before moving on to the next is, I believe, that we thought if was best to start as soon as possible. Waiting and poll-check for a pidfile could take time in case of failure to start, before monit timed out and moved on to start the next process. With many services to check, there would be a potential for monit's poll cycle to take "a long time" in case of problems.Today the solution is to start as soon as possible and instead spin of one wait-thread per started process and check if the process did start and if not, report an error.Of course, this solution does not play too well with a dependency chain, particularly if you expect A to come up before monit starts B etc. Now monit just start A and B more or less simultaneously.1) Maybe start time is not the crucial point here, but rather "correctness", that is, monit should wait for A to come up before starting B and so on?2) Apropos correctness. This brings up another question, if you have a dependency chain, say, C->B->A, today if monit should fail to start A, it still goes on and try to start B and C. If A failed to start, should monit instead abort the chain and not try to start B and C regardless? I'm not sure.I do not know if changing start to also become synchronously will have unwanted side effects, I don't think so? Martin?In case we decide to do this change, do you have a good test case and would be willing to test?What do the other comitters think? Should we change 1) and 2) above? Best regards -- Jan-Henrik Haukeland On 5. sep. 2007, at 15.42, Stanisław Trytek wrote:From our experience monit works properly when closing services. It closes services in accordance with declared dependieces and services wait for another.Your problem may be caused by stdout, it can happen.The problem is with starting services. In spite of dependencies monit starts them at once, and it causes mess in some environments. It would be great if both starting and stoping work synchronusly. We made some attempts to overcome this issue.Stanislaw Trytek -- _________________________________________ PRZEMYSŁOWY INSTYTUT TELEKOMUNIKACJI TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ul. Poligonowa 30, 04-051 Warszawa, Poland tel: +48 (22) 48 65 232 fax: +48 (22) 48 65 494 e-mail: address@hiddenOn Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:21:13 +0200, Jason L. Buberel <address@hidden> wrote:My configuration is using monit 4.10-beta-1 on RHEL3. I have configured a dependency chain for squid and apache:squid ---depends-on--> apacheSquid in particular can take a while to shutdown. In fact the official squid init.d script contains a section that looks like this:timeout=0 while : ; do [ -f /opt/squid/var/logs/squid.pid ] || break if [ $timeout -ge $SQUID_SHUTDOWN_TIMEOUT ]; then echo return 1 fi sleep 2 && echo -n "." timeout=$((timeout+2)) doneWhen I issue a 'monit restart apache' command, I see the following in stdout:'squid' stop: /etc/init.d/squid.local Stopping squid: 'apache' stop: /usr/local/bin/stop-apache.bash . [ OK ]Which tells me that the 'apache stop' is being executed before the 'squid stop' has actually completed. If the commands were executed serially, the output would have been:'squid' stop: /etc/init.d/squid.local Stopping squid: ...... [ OK ] 'apache' stop: /usr/local/bin/stop-apache.bash This seems similar to what is described:http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/monit-general/2007-04/ msg00007.htmlWould it be possible to add a 'synchronous' flag to the start/ stop parameters to force monit to wait for the script to exit fully:start synchronous "/etc/init.d/service start" stop synchronous "/etc/init.d/service stop" Or something to that effect? -jason -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general-- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general-- To unsubscribe: http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
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