Okay, this has happened again.  Puppet master stopped logging catalog compiles, 
every server stopped returning results and the global queue went quickly 
through the roof in like 9 minutes.  It appears puppet master is stopping dead 
in its tracks without logging any errors.

# passenger-status
----------- General information -----------
max      = 20
count    = 20
active   = 20
inactive = 0
Waiting on global queue: 209

----------- Domains -----------
/etc/puppet/rack: 
  PID: 25783   Sessions: 1    Processed: 329     Uptime: 2h 52m 7s
  PID: 25831   Sessions: 1    Processed: 4       Uptime: 2h 52m 5s
  PID: 28517   Sessions: 1    Processed: 6       Uptime: 2h 22m 0s
  PID: 25802   Sessions: 1    Processed: 714     Uptime: 2h 52m 6s
  PID: 30905   Sessions: 1    Processed: 13      Uptime: 1h 50m 27s
  PID: 25864   Sessions: 1    Processed: 709     Uptime: 2h 52m 4s
  PID: 31028   Sessions: 1    Processed: 347     Uptime: 1h 50m 21s
  PID: 28944   Sessions: 1    Processed: 377     Uptime: 2h 21m 50s
  PID: 31090   Sessions: 1    Processed: 266     Uptime: 1h 50m 18s
  PID: 577     Sessions: 1    Processed: 400     Uptime: 1h 27m 27s
  PID: 418     Sessions: 1    Processed: 647     Uptime: 1h 28m 2s
  PID: 1247    Sessions: 1    Processed: 133     Uptime: 1h 19m 3s
  PID: 1474    Sessions: 1    Processed: 52      Uptime: 1h 18m 9s
  PID: 594     Sessions: 1    Processed: 378     Uptime: 1h 27m 26s
  PID: 4706    Sessions: 1    Processed: 414     Uptime: 48m 5s
  PID: 4775    Sessions: 1    Processed: 218     Uptime: 47m 28s
  PID: 4854    Sessions: 1    Processed: 584     Uptime: 47m 23s
  PID: 7774    Sessions: 1    Processed: 165     Uptime: 14m 27s
  PID: 7902    Sessions: 1    Processed: 44      Uptime: 13m 44s
  PID: 8149    Sessions: 1    Processed: 541     Uptime: 11m 21s


On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> I came in this morning to find all the servers all locked up solid:
> 
> # passenger-status
> ----------- General information -----------
> max      = 20
> count    = 20
> active   = 20
> inactive = 0
> Waiting on global queue: 236
> 
> ----------- Domains -----------
> /etc/puppet/rack: 
>  PID: 2720    Sessions: 1    Processed: 939     Uptime: 9h 22m 18s
>  PID: 1615    Sessions: 1    Processed: 947     Uptime: 9h 23m 14s
>  PID: 1596    Sessions: 1    Processed: 607     Uptime: 9h 23m 15s
>  PID: 1722    Sessions: 1    Processed: 953     Uptime: 9h 23m 9s
>  PID: 2218    Sessions: 1    Processed: 378     Uptime: 9h 22m 43s
>  PID: 4286    Sessions: 1    Processed: 178     Uptime: 8h 50m 58s
>  PID: 5749    Sessions: 1    Processed: 708     Uptime: 8h 20m 20s
>  PID: 4253    Sessions: 1    Processed: 820     Uptime: 8h 51m 1s
>  PID: 5624    Sessions: 1    Processed: 126     Uptime: 8h 20m 24s
>  PID: 7328    Sessions: 1    Processed: 811     Uptime: 7h 49m 17s
>  PID: 7274    Sessions: 1    Processed: 984     Uptime: 7h 49m 20s
>  PID: 8761    Sessions: 1    Processed: 85      Uptime: 7h 18m 50s
>  PID: 9135    Sessions: 1    Processed: 907     Uptime: 7h 16m 27s
>  PID: 8777    Sessions: 1    Processed: 342     Uptime: 7h 18m 49s
>  PID: 10508   Sessions: 1    Processed: 51      Uptime: 6h 47m 6s
>  PID: 10853   Sessions: 1    Processed: 603     Uptime: 6h 43m 9s
>  PID: 10620   Sessions: 1    Processed: 939     Uptime: 6h 45m 52s
>  PID: 11438   Sessions: 1    Processed: 870     Uptime: 6h 30m 8s
>  PID: 12582   Sessions: 1    Processed: 448     Uptime: 6h 9m 59s
>  PID: 12670   Sessions: 1    Processed: 400     Uptime: 6h 8m 46s
> 
> For comparison, most of our server processes recycle within 20 minutes 
> normally, as they hit 1000 really fast.
> 
> # you probably want to tune these settings
> PassengerHighPerformance on
> PassengerUseGlobalQueue on
> PassengerMaxPoolSize 20
> PassengerPoolIdleTime 1800
> PassengerMaxRequests 1000
> #PassengerStatThrottleRate 120
> RackAutoDetect Off
> RailsAutoDetect Off
> 
> There is nothing useful in the system logs.  They just stopped:
> 
> Dec  2 12:06:34 axxats003 puppet-master[12670]: Compiled catalog for 
> axxamx001.sjc.company.com in environment production 
> in 1.76 seconds
> Dec  2 12:06:37 axxats003 puppet-master[12670]: Compiled catalog for 
> axxatn016.sjc.company.com in environment production 
> in 1.64 seconds
> Dec  2 12:06:40 axxats003 puppet-master[12670]: Compiled catalog for 
> axaafc001.company.com in environment production i
> n 1.70 seconds
> Dec  2 14:10:02 axxats003 puppet-agent[16965]: Reopening log files
> Dec  2 14:10:02 axxats003 puppet-agent[16965]: Starting Puppet client version 
> 2.6.12
> Dec  2 14:12:04 axxats003 puppet-agent[16965]: Could not retrieve catalog 
> from remote server: execution expired
> Dec  2 14:12:04 axxats003 puppet-agent[16965]: Using cached catalog
> 
> (every 30 minutes puppet agent says the same thing until I restart the puppet 
> master)
> 
> Dec  2 18:06:09 axxats003 puppet-master[25783]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:10 axxats003 puppet-master[25802]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:11 axxats003 puppet-master[25831]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:12 axxats003 puppet-master[25864]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:13 axxats003 puppet-master[25897]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:14 axxats003 puppet-master[25922]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:15 axxats003 puppet-master[25947]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:16 axxats003 puppet-master[25972]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:17 axxats003 puppet-master[25997]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:18 axxats003 puppet-master[26019]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:19 axxats003 puppet-master[26056]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:20 axxats003 puppet-master[26081]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:06:21 axxats003 puppet-master[26115]: Starting Puppet master 
> version 2.6.12
> Dec  2 18:14:32 axxats003 puppet-master[26115]: Compiled catalog for 
> axxatn018.sjc.company.com in environment production in 3.63 seconds
> Dec  2 18:14:37 axxats003 puppet-master[26115]: Compiled catalog for 
> axxamb002.sjc.company.com in environment production in 1.47 seconds
> Dec  2 18:14:50 axxats003 puppet-master[26115]: Compiled catalog for 
> axxasn001.sjc.company.com in environment production in 1.57 seconds
> 
> There are no other messages in /var/log/messages -- the system was otherwise 
> not busy.  Apache error log only observed max clients get hit:
> [Fri Dec 02 08:42:43 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- 
> resuming normal operations
> [Fri Dec 02 12:23:46 2011] [error] server reached MaxClients setting, 
> consider raising the MaxClients setting
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:07 2011] [notice] caught SIGTERM, shutting down
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: 
> /usr/sbin/suexec)
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) 
> `puppetmaster.company.com' does NOT match server name!?
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest 
> authentication ...
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [notice] Digest: done
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [warn] RSA server certificate CommonName (CN) 
> `puppetmaster.company.com' does NOT match server name!?
> [Fri Dec 02 18:06:08 2011] [notice] Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) configured -- 
> resuming normal operations
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jo Rhett
> [email protected]
> (415) 999-1798
> 
> -- 
> Jo Rhett
> Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other 
> randomness
> 

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other 
randomness

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