Thank you, Sivaram. That would seem to be 2 "votes" for upgrading.
-Paul > On Aug 13, 2016, at 11:47 PM, Sivaram Kannan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't remember the condition exactly, but I have faced similar issue in my > deployments and have been fixed when I moved to 0.26.0. Upgrade the marathon > to compatible version as well. > >> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Paul Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Jeff, >> >> Thanks for your reply. >> >> Yeah....that thought occurred to me late last night. But customer is >> sensitive to too much churn, so it wouldn't be my first choice. If I knew >> with certainty that such a problem existed in the versions they are running >> AND that more recent versions fixed it, then I'd do my best to compel the >> upgrade. >> >> Docker version is also old, 1.6.2. >> >> -Paul >> >>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Jeff Schroeder >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Have you considered upgrading Mesos and Marathon? Those are quite old >>> versions of both with some fairly glaring problems with the docker >>> containerizer if memory serves. Also what version of docker? >>> >>> >>>> On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, Paul Bell <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> One of our customers has twice encountered a problem wherein Mesos & >>>> Marathon appear to lose track of the application containers that they >>>> started. >>>> >>>> Platform & version info: >>>> >>>> Ubuntu 14.04 (running under VMware) >>>> Mesos (master & agent): 0.23.0 >>>> ZK: 3.4.5--1 >>>> Marathon: 0.10.0 >>>> >>>> The phenomena: >>>> >>>> When I log into either the Mesos or Marathon UIs I see no evidence of >>>> *any* tasks, active or completed. Yet, in the Linux shell, a "docker ps" >>>> command shows the containers up & running. >>>> >>>> I've seen some confusing appearances before, but never this. For example, >>>> I've seen what might be described as the reverse of the above phenomena. I >>>> mean the case where a customer powers cycles the VM. In such a case you >>>> typically see in Marathon's UI the (mere) appearance of the containers up >>>> & running, but a "docker ps" command shows no containers running. As folks >>>> on this list have explained to me, this is the result of "stale state" and >>>> after 10 minutes (by default), Mesos figures out that the supposedly >>>> active tasks aren't there and restarts them. >>>> >>>> But that's not the case here. I am hard-pressed to understand what >>>> conditions/causes might lead to Mesos & Marathon becoming unaware of >>>> containers that they started. >>>> >>>> I would be very grateful if someone could help me understand what's going >>>> on here (so would our customer!). >>>> >>>> Thanks. >>>> >>>> -Paul >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Text by Jeff, typos by iPhone > > > > -- > ever tried. ever failed. no matter. > try again. fail again. fail better. > -- Samuel Beckett

