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
> 
> 
> 
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