Perhaps still a problem?

Carter Bullard carter at qosient.com
Fri Sep 21 08:51:14 EDT 2007


Well, the trick is that we should be dropping records, not stopping.
This is unthreaded?  I'll go through the code with a max queue of
something ridiculously low to see if I can reproduce this problem.

It should just drop some records, and continue to write records
out the socket.

Carter

On Sep 20, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Peter Van Epp wrote:

> 	Nope, nothing around 03:30 just the normal noise:
>
> Sep 20 01:45:46 hcids syslog-ng[3228]: STATS: dropped 0
> Sep 20 02:45:47 hcids syslog-ng[3228]: STATS: dropped 0
> Sep 20 03:45:47 hcids syslog-ng[3228]: STATS: dropped 0
> Sep 20 04:09:05 hcids zmd: NetworkManagerModule (WARN): Failed to  
> connect to NetworkManager
> Sep 20 04:11:13 hcids zmd: Daemon (WARN): Not starting remote web  
> server
> Sep 20 04:45:47 hcids syslog-ng[3228]: STATS: dropped 0
> Sep 20 05:09:05 hcids zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Preparing to  
> sleep...
> Sep 20 05:09:05 hcids zmd: ShutdownManager (WARN): Going to sleep,  
> waking up at 09/21/2007 03:59:05
> Sep 20 05:45:48 hcids syslog-ng[3228]: STATS: dropped 0
>
> but the debug log has news:
>
>   ArgusWarning: argus[22408]: 18 Sep 07 12:33:40.090363  
> ArgusGetInterfaceStatus: interface eth0 is up
>      ArgusInfo: argus[22408]: 18 Sep 07 12:34:03.115329 connect  
> from test4.ucs.sfu.ca
>   ArgusWarning: argus[22408]: 20 Sep 07 03:10:31.910926  
> ArgusWriteOutSocket(0x12be9a20) max queue exceeded 100001
>   ArgusWarning: argus[22408]: 20 Sep 07 03:10:31.911016  
> ArgusWriteOutSocket(0x12be9a20) max queue exceeded 100001
>      ArgusInfo: argus[22408]: 20 Sep 07 09:09:40.122759 connect  
> from test4.ucs.sfu.ca
>
> 	Looks like it was a queue exceeded that did the deed. I guess we  
> should
> add a syslog for this so we know when it happens without debug on.
>
> Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
>
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:25:02PM -0400, Carter Bullard wrote:
>> Anything in argus's log?  Seems like it may have just decided to
>> stop sending?
>>
>> Carter
>>
>



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