Steffen Weiberle wrote:
> I've been looking all over and can't find this...
>
> In the past I have seen error messages when a service terminates too
> often that says service restarted too many times and has been put into
> maintenance mode. I even thought I had seen a parameter somewhere that
> set it to 3 or so. Howver, now I can't find it.
This is hardcoded into usr/src/cmd/svc/startd/startd.h
#define FAULT_THRESHOLD 3
>
> The reason is that I have come across a situation/bug where vold (volfs
> service) core dumps in 6/06. Vold is restarted every four to six
> seconds, so I am getting about ten abnormal ends and resulting core
> dumps a minute! Took me a while to figure out why my disk would not stop :)
>
> Anyway, it seems SMF should catch the fact that this error is happening
> much to frequently and put volfs into maintenance mode. But it is not.
> So I have been searching for the variable, but can't find it. I don't
> see it in the manifests for the services I have looked at. Where is it?
svc.startd(1M) man page says:
If three method failures happen in a row, or if the service
is restarting more than once a second, svc.startd places the
service in the maintenance state.
It seems that in your case, the start method doesn't fail but the
service is restarting every four or six seconds hence the rules don't
apply and the instance never goes into maintenance.
-- Renaud
