Subj : Re: mis poll get 'stuck'
To   : Biite
From : Zip
Date : Fri Jul 23 2021 10:11 am

Hello Biite!

On 22 Jul 2021, Biite said the following...
 Bi> - Experienced a filesystem full on the /mystic filesystem
 Bi> - Now sometimes a 'mis poll' gets stuck:

Really strange (shouldn't be affected by the earlier disk full problem, one would think)...

I had problems with mis poll hanging (and consuming lots of CPU) previously; when tracing the process it was looping around in gettimeofday() I think it was.

You might want to use the timeout command to safeguard against hangs, e.g.:

timeout -k 300 --preserve-status -v 300 ./mis poll 21:3/100

....which would allow mis to run for 5 minutes, then sends a TERM signal, waits up to 5 more minutes for it to finish, then sends a KILL signal.

Best regards
Zip

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