Jira (PUP-8680) Puppet should supervise and kill its applying child if it gets stuck

[R.I.Pienaar (JIRA)]

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R.I.Pienaar created an issue   Puppet / PUP-8680 Puppet should supervise and kill its applying child if it gets stuck Issue Type: New Feature Affects Versions: PUP 5.4.0 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2018/04/30 12:48 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: R.I.Pienaar The problem of stuck agents during periods of network instability comes up often see for example PUP-1570 which was marked wontfix. Network instability is a real problem, perhaps we cant fix the real problem but the symptoms and fall out can be better managed. There's no conceivable reason for a puppet catalog application to take hours or days: root 21490 2.6 1.2 281488 49480 ? Ssl Apr20 0:02 /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/ruby /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize root 3050 0.0 2.3 397320 90968 ? Sl Apr26 0:08 puppet agent: applying configuration Today is the 30th, surely the puppet agent that spawns the applier could detect this and kill the bad applier? Worse, restarting puppet agent service does not resolve this: % sudo service puppet restart % ps -auxw|grep puppet root 3050 0.0 2.3 397320 90968 ? Sl Apr26 0:08 puppet agent: applying configuration root 21834 69.5 1.2 281772 49772 ? Ssl 09:47 0:01 /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/ruby /opt/puppetlabs/puppet/bin/puppet agent --no-daemonize So when this happens there is no choice but to go to machines - or use bolt/choria/whatever - and kill these things off effectively manually. I agree we cant fix the problem but how about doing better at managing it? Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.