I confess to never having set WOHost in years of running a WO server, it 
actually shows in JavaMonitor: localhost / 127.0.0.1

On 9 Aug 2014, at 18:50, Chuck Hill <ch...@global-village.net> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> Yes, Java monitor reporting zero instances running would rule this out 
> completely.  Have you set WOHost on wotaskd, JavaMonitor, and the instances?  
> It could possibly be a timing issue leading to one of them (probably wotaskd) 
> using a different WOHost name.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> On 2014-08-09, 6:42 AM, "John Pollard" wrote:
> 
> Hi Chuck,
> Would the fact that JavaMonitor reports 0 instances running rule that 
> possibility out? There are instances running, but it would seem wotaskd 
> doesn't know it, and as such that is the state shown in JavaMonitor. 
> Otherwise my adding a delay before restarting wotaskd would have made the 
> problem worse. However, I will certainly try restarting apache the next time 
> it happens. I just suspect that the netstat error may be related as it is 
> similarly intermittent and wotaskd would need to find out similar information 
> that netstat returns, presumably.
> Thanks
> John
> 
> On 8 Aug 2014, at 19:54, Chuck Hill <ch...@global-village.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi John,
>> 
>> Another thing to try when this happens is to restart Apache.  I have seen 
>> cases where something happens and it caches a state of no instances.  My 
>> guess is that may be it starts too early before wotaskd is ready.  After a 
>> restart the instances become visible again.  If that results in no change, 
>> at least you can rule this out.
>> 
>> Chuck
>> 
>> 
>> On 2014-08-08, 1:18 AM, "John Pollard" wrote:
>> 
>> Hi list,
>> 
>> Despite adding in delays when starting wotaskd on reboot, the WO services 
>> have again (intermittently) failed to start processes smoothly on reboot, 
>> which I believe is wotaskd starting processes but then not being able to 
>> confirm they are running on the relevant sockets, so trying to start them 
>> again.
>> 
>> We have a script that monitors CLOSE_WAIT issues using netstat -a, and I 
>> note the log file intermittently shows "getnameinfo failed" from the netstat 
>> -a command. Could this be the same issue that causes wotaskd to 
>> intermittently fail on startup?
>> 
>> I can find very little on the web about this failure message or how to 
>> resolve, other than that is may be a DNS resolution issue, but why 
>> intermittent?
>> 
>> The server is running on Amazon Linux.
>> Multiple domains route to the same server static IP address
>> We don't specifically assign a hostname to the server, instead we access via 
>> ssh on user@domain
>> Amazon Linux creates a hostname, which currently reports as: ip-10-73-155-123
>> but this has never featured in any of our configuration and is not the same 
>> IP as the server's public static IP address that all our domains point to.
>> 
>> Any thoughts on whether this getnameinfo failed might relate to the WO 
>> startup issues? The failure only happens occasionally it seems, but does 
>> seem to happen in clumps.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> John
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