Re: rc and smf
Devon H. O'Dell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 18:22 +0100, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 10:50:35AM -0500, Dan Melomedman wrote:
>>
>>>It's built on the correct assumptions. You just don't understand all
>>>possibilities why a service process can crash/exist, even if it's a
>>>most perfect software ever written. Shit happens, and supervision will
>>>attempt to restart the service for any reason it exits/killed. Including
>>>human error, of course. What you've never killed the wrong process by
>>>mistake? What if you set an rlimit, and the service reaches it, the
>>>kernel will then kill the service. With supervision it will be
>>>restarted, without it, the service will be down. Simple as that.
>>>Programs have bugs, including memory leaks.
>>
>>Actually, this is exactly one of the situations where I don't want
>>automatic, silent restarts. It hides problems, which is in my position
>>even more problematic. "Magic restart" doesn't solve every problem.
>>
>>Joerg
>
>
> In fact, this can be quite an issue when (re)starting ``heavy''
> applications every time the daemontools monitor loops when these are
> e.g. misconfigured or broken.
>
> --Devon
>
ACK - and a *Royal* PITA when trying to manually start-stop test and
troubleshoot config changes - especially during an upgrade that hasn't
been DJB-ized yet while the old one was..
'Never again'.
Bill
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