Re: Question about supervise and tcpserver behaviour

[Charles Cazabon <qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Renato <webmaster@cienciapura.com.br> wrote:
> 
> I'm monitoring the behaviour of tcpserver for the pop service ( simple 'ps -
> aux | grep tcpserver | grep pop' and I get, obviously, just one is 
> running ). Sometimes, supervise tries to restart tcpserver and I see 2 
> tcpservers. Then the second dies ( port is already bind ). During this 
> time, pop fails. Looking at the log for the pop service, I can tell that 
> there is no specific moment that it happens. Tcpserver didn't run out of 
> connections ( I have up to 150 concurrent ), sometimes it did with 20 
> connections, sometimes with 90 concurrents. 
> 
> Is this an expected behauvior ?

No.  tcpserver shouldn't randomly die.

> Is there a way to tune up supervise ? ( time-out, any other parameters ? )

Perhaps you're running it with memory or other process limits, or its hitting
a system-wide limit?  Without specific information about how you've configured
svscan, tcpserver, etc, log entries, and perhaps strace of the process dying,
we can't help you.

Charles
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