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Re: splaytime not honoured?
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Frank Smith |
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Re: splaytime not honoured? |
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:13:57 -0500 |
--On Monday, June 23, 2003 14:44:58 +0100 khalid.sattar@globalgraphics.com
wrote:
> We run cfengine twice an hour, once via cron on the hour using cfexecd -F
> and also via the daemon mode. The scheduler has been changed with
>
> schedule = ( Min30_35 )
>
> All this work fine except that the runs that happen from cron seems to (I
> believe) create a heavy load in our policyhost (a sparc 20) which then
> results in many error messages like
>
> ace: Key-authentication for ace.cam.harlequin.co.uk failed
> ace: Unable to establish connection with fin.cam.harlequin.co.uk
>
> (ace is the client, fin is the policyhost).
>
> Running this manually usually work fine unless it happens to be in the 1st
> few mins past the hour. and we have noticed that we never see such
> messages around 2nd run (ie 30-35 mins run past the hour) which is
> started from cfexecd in daemon mode.
>
> This lead me to think that the splaytime is not being honoured when
> cfexecd is executed with -F, therefore to all connections are coming in at
> once which is too much for the policyhost. Is this likely? If so are
> there configuration options that I can change?
>
> I have (and have tried 20 as well)
>
> splaytime = ( 10 )
Try this instead:
SplayTime = ( 10 )
Frank
>
> Both this and schedule variables are in update.conf file (not
> cfagent.conf)
>
> My cfengine version is 2.0.2 running on Solaris 2.5.1 to 2.8, I have under
> 20 clients that pull stuff/check stuff policy host.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
>
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