From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1647 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Radek Podgorny" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: runit not collecting zombies Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:27:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <25275.9257717573$1203953299@news.gmane.org> References: <46561ABE.7030008@podgorny.cz> <20080225072546.GJ10310@home.power> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1203953268 6888 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2008 15:27:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 15:27:48 +0000 (UTC) To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Original-X-From: supervision-return-1882-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Mon Feb 25 16:28:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by lo.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JTfFE-00078Q-G6 for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:27:56 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 18933 invoked by uid 76); 25 Feb 2008 15:27:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 18927 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2008 15:27:46 -0000 In-Reply-To: <20080225072546.GJ10310@home.power> User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1647 Archived-At: Hi! I'm interested in the original versions. Could you, please, post them? Thanks Radek Podgorny > Hi! > > I've just got new information. One of our servers doesn't have that zombie > issue. But it wasn't updated for about 6 months because it previous admin > retired. Now I begin updating it. At first I updated simple tools and > libraries, which shouldn't broke anything, and now I'm working on updating > more critical things like toolchain, LAMP and few system tools like PAM > and udev. Current uptime is 128 days. And know what? I have just noticed a > lot of zombies there! Usual trick 'chmod 0 /etc/runit/stopit; kill -CONT > 1' > did the work, but... > > I have neither updated runit (or other critical packages like > toolchain) nor reboot system - this issue with zombies has arisen > after update of some simple utils and libraries!!!!! > WTF??? How this can be possible?! > > If runit doesn't reload dynamic libraries on the fly or execute > external utils (which I believe is not the case), then how update of > some libraries and tools may result in runit failure to gather zombies? > > Only possible "explanation" which come in my mind is some CPU/RAM usage > pattern which is happens while compiling all these packages somehow affect > runit-init. And this isn't just "high load", because this server most of > time under high enough load, in all ways (CPU+RAM+HDD). > > Below is list of updated packages, I can provide also versions "from" is > was updated, if somebody will need it. > > Sat Feb 23 17:01:46 2008 >>> sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.18.1-r2 > Sat Feb 23 17:02:21 2008 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 > Sat Feb 23 21:48:03 2008 >>> app-misc/colordiff-1.0.6-r1 > Sun Feb 24 02:17:13 2008 >>> sys-libs/ncurses-5.6-r2 > Sun Feb 24 02:17:57 2008 >>> app-arch/bzip2-1.0.4-r1 > Sun Feb 24 02:18:16 2008 >>> sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724 > Sun Feb 24 02:21:45 2008 >>> media-libs/freetype-2.3.5-r2 > Sun Feb 24 02:24:49 2008 >>> dev-util/pkgconfig-0.22 > Sun Feb 24 02:26:01 2008 >>> sys-libs/cracklib-2.8.12 > Sun Feb 24 02:26:33 2008 >>> app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.16 > Sun Feb 24 02:26:59 2008 >>> sys-devel/gcc-config-1.4.0-r4 > Sun Feb 24 02:27:49 2008 >>> sys-libs/timezone-data-2007k > Sun Feb 24 02:29:33 2008 >>> media-libs/t1lib-5.0.2-r1 > Sun Feb 24 02:32:08 2008 >>> dev-libs/libmcrypt-2.5.8 > Sun Feb 24 02:35:28 2008 >>> dev-db/sqlite-3.5.3 > Sun Feb 24 02:36:52 2008 >>> sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 > Sun Feb 24 02:37:13 2008 >>> net-analyzer/netselect-0.3-r2 > Sun Feb 24 02:37:30 2008 >>> sys-process/cronbase-0.3.2-r1 > Sun Feb 24 02:40:02 2008 >>> dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.7.0 > Sun Feb 24 02:42:02 2008 >>> app-arch/cpio-2.9-r1 > Sun Feb 24 02:42:43 2008 >>> sys-process/acct-6.3.5-r2 > Sun Feb 24 02:43:16 2008 >>> app-portage/portage-utils-0.1.29 > Sun Feb 24 02:56:51 2008 >>> app-arch/p7zip-4.57 > Sun Feb 24 02:58:10 2008 >>> sys-fs/reiserfsprogs-3.6.19-r2 > Sun Feb 24 02:58:53 2008 >>> net-proxy/3proxy-0.5.3j > Sun Feb 24 02:59:19 2008 >>> net-analyzer/traceroute-2.0.9-r1 > Sun Feb 24 03:01:08 2008 >>> sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.6.23-r3 > Sun Feb 24 03:04:43 2008 >>> app-shells/bash-3.2_p17-r1 > Sun Feb 24 03:07:02 2008 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.24 > Sun Feb 24 03:09:36 2008 >>> dev-libs/libpcre-7.6-r1 > Sun Feb 24 03:13:22 2008 >>> media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r3 > Sun Feb 24 03:14:18 2008 >>> sys-apps/less-418 > Sun Feb 24 03:24:46 2008 >>> app-portage/eix-0.10.2 > Sun Feb 24 03:26:09 2008 >>> sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.9 > Sun Feb 24 03:27:51 2008 >>> net-misc/netkit-telnetd-0.17-r8 > Sun Feb 24 03:34:33 2008 >>> sys-libs/readline-5.2_p12-r1 > Sun Feb 24 03:36:50 2008 >>> sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r10 > Sun Feb 24 03:38:53 2008 >>> sys-apps/ed-0.8 > Sun Feb 24 03:41:09 2008 >>> net-misc/iputils-20070202 > Sun Feb 24 04:06:57 2008 >>> dev-libs/libxml2-2.6.30-r1 > Sun Feb 24 04:53:51 2008 >>> sys-devel/gettext-0.17 > Sun Feb 24 04:55:04 2008 >>> sys-apps/sed-4.1.5 > Sun Feb 24 04:56:47 2008 >>> sys-devel/m4-1.4.10 > Sun Feb 24 04:57:34 2008 >>> sys-apps/man-1.6f > Sun Feb 24 04:58:44 2008 >>> sys-devel/flex-2.5.33-r3 > Sun Feb 24 04:59:48 2008 >>> dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.6 > Sun Feb 24 05:02:31 2008 >>> sys-apps/findutils-4.3.11 > Sun Feb 24 05:04:23 2008 >>> sys-apps/gawk-3.1.5-r5 > Sun Feb 24 05:05:38 2008 >>> app-editors/nano-2.0.7 > Sun Feb 24 05:06:49 2008 >>> dev-util/dialog-1.1.20071028 > Sun Feb 24 05:07:51 2008 >>> sys-apps/kbd-1.13-r1 > Sun Feb 24 05:10:45 2008 >>> app-arch/tar-1.19-r1 > Sun Feb 24 05:11:23 2008 >>> sys-apps/ucspi-tcp-0.88-r16 > Sun Feb 24 05:12:49 2008 >>> sys-apps/man-pages-2.76 > Sun Feb 24 05:13:23 2008 >>> sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6 > Sun Feb 24 05:13:34 2008 >>> virtual/editor-0 > Sun Feb 24 05:26:40 2008 >>> sys-devel/binutils-2.18-r1 > Sun Feb 24 05:28:49 2008 >>> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.4 > Sun Feb 24 05:41:56 2008 >>> sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2 > Sun Feb 24 05:43:16 2008 >>> sys-libs/ss-1.40.4 > Sun Feb 24 05:43:38 2008 >>> sys-apps/paxctl-0.5 > Sun Feb 24 05:46:54 2008 >>> sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.4 > Sun Feb 24 05:49:59 2008 >>> sys-apps/util-linux-2.13-r2 > Sun Feb 24 05:54:34 2008 >>> sys-apps/parted-1.8.8 > Sun Feb 24 05:56:03 2008 >>> net-mail/fetchmail-6.3.8-r1 > Sun Feb 24 06:01:18 2008 >>> net-misc/ntp-4.2.4_p4 > Sun Feb 24 06:15:26 2008 >>> dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r4 > Sun Feb 24 06:16:04 2008 >>> sys-devel/autoconf-2.61-r1 > Sun Feb 24 06:16:20 2008 >>> app-admin/perl-cleaner-1.05 > Sun Feb 24 06:18:05 2008 >>> dev-libs/libtasn1-1.2 > Sun Feb 24 06:18:25 2008 >>> sys-apps/help2man-1.36.4 > Sun Feb 24 06:20:09 2008 >>> net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r5 > Sun Feb 24 06:22:37 2008 >>> sys-devel/libtool-1.5.26 > Sun Feb 24 07:56:47 2008 >>> sys-apps/busybox-1.8.2 > Sun Feb 24 07:57:13 2008 >>> sys-apps/slocate-3.1-r1 > Sun Feb 24 07:58:20 2008 >>> net-libs/libpcap-0.9.8 > Sun Feb 24 08:02:15 2008 >>> dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.0-r1 > Sun Feb 24 08:03:07 2008 >>> dev-perl/DBI-1.601 > Sun Feb 24 08:03:47 2008 >>> x11-misc/read-edid-1.4.1-r1 > Sun Feb 24 08:05:52 2008 >>> net-dns/libidn-1.0-r1 > Sun Feb 24 08:07:13 2008 >>> sys-process/psmisc-22.6 > Sun Feb 24 08:28:13 2008 >>> net-fs/samba-3.0.28 > Sun Feb 24 08:30:00 2008 >>> dev-util/strace-4.5.16 > Sun Feb 24 08:35:23 2008 >>> net-analyzer/rrdtool-1.2.23-r1 > Sun Feb 24 08:38:41 2008 >>> dev-libs/libxslt-1.1.22 > Sun Feb 24 08:40:32 2008 >>> app-crypt/opencdk-0.6.6 > Sun Feb 24 08:41:20 2008 >>> net-analyzer/lft-3.0 > Sun Feb 24 08:45:39 2008 >>> net-analyzer/nmap-4.53 > Sun Feb 24 08:46:01 2008 >>> net-misc/whois-4.7.24 > Sun Feb 24 08:47:51 2008 >>> net-analyzer/tcpdump-3.9.8 > Sun Feb 24 08:57:19 2008 >>> net-libs/gnutls-2.0.4 > Sun Feb 24 09:01:41 2008 >>> net-misc/curl-7.17.1 > Sun Feb 24 09:08:55 2008 >>> dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r6 > Sun Feb 24 09:10:28 2008 >>> sys-apps/file-4.23 > Sun Feb 24 09:10:44 2008 >>> app-admin/eselect-vi-1.1.5 > Sun Feb 24 09:10:55 2008 >>> app-admin/eselect-ctags-1.3 > Sun Feb 24 09:11:55 2008 >>> dev-util/ctags-5.7 > Sun Feb 24 09:12:25 2008 >>> sys-apps/debianutils-2.28.2 > Sun Feb 24 09:12:45 2008 >>> app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 > Sun Feb 24 09:13:18 2008 >>> sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.11.1 > Sun Feb 24 09:14:03 2008 >>> sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.4 > Sun Feb 24 09:30:04 2008 >>> sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.23-r7 > Sun Feb 24 09:31:40 2008 >>> net-dialup/ppp-2.4.4-r14 > Sun Feb 24 09:33:01 2008 >>> sys-apps/lm_sensors-2.10.4 > Sun Feb 24 09:34:21 2008 >>> net-firewall/iptables-1.3.8-r3 > Sun Feb 24 09:36:33 2008 >>> app-editors/vim-core-7.1.123 > Sun Feb 24 09:41:04 2008 >>> app-editors/vim-7.1.123 > Sun Feb 24 10:08:14 2008 >>> dev-lang/php-5.2.4_pre200708051230-r2 > Sun Feb 24 10:09:42 2008 >>> dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.6.2-r1 > Sun Feb 24 10:09:53 2008 >>> app-admin/eselect-fontconfig-1.0 > Sun Feb 24 10:13:11 2008 >>> media-libs/fontconfig-2.5.0-r1 > Sun Feb 24 10:13:49 2008 >>> media-fonts/corefonts-1-r4 > Sun Feb 24 10:35:59 2008 >>> media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.7.9 > Sun Feb 24 11:02:04 2008 >>> dev-libs/glib-2.14.6 > Sun Feb 24 11:02:30 2008 >>> app-arch/rar-3.7.1 > > These packages was installed, not updated: > Sun Feb 24 18:10:56 2008 >>> app-misc/mc-mp-4.1.40_pre9-r1 > Sun Feb 24 23:47:46 2008 >>> app-forensics/chkrootkit-0.47 > Sun Feb 24 23:48:45 2008 >>> sys-process/lsof-4.78-r1 > Sun Feb 24 23:49:00 2008 >>> app-forensics/rkhunter-1.2.9 > > P.S. Gerrit: runit is really cool, but this bug (unfixed for about a > year!) > drives me crazy... :( > > -- > WBR, Alex. > >