Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfagent hangs on 'copy' Author: Seva Gluschenko Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18586,18589#msg-18589
>From all the debug output you've supplied I've figured out that certainly a >packetloss had happened on the way from your server to your hanging client, so >that both sides stuck in reading from the other side. There is nothing unusual >in the packetloss itself, especially in busy networks. The question is: how >outages are handled. It seems like Cfengine2 relies on the system wide >connection timeout which is pretty big, while the Cfengine3 specifies the >definite timeout in seconds (defaults to 10) after which connection is >considered to be broken, and execution continues. So, if upgrading to Cfengine3 is not the option, I'd recomment to establish a chain of "policy reflectors" serving smaller groups of servers to maintain their load under reasonable limit and prevent such congestions. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
