Subj : Re: Polling
To   : Accession
From : Zip
Date : Wed Apr 14 2021 14:28:43

Hello Accession!

On 13 Apr 2021, Accession said the following...
 Ac> Anyone else have issues on Linux where MIS POLL gets stuck and you have
 Ac> to manually kill the process for polling to continue?

I used to have those problems, mis eating all CPU and had to kill it. Usually once a week or so. I switched to running mis through:

timeout -k 600 --preserve-status -v 600 ./mis poll forced

That way, if mis runs for more than 10 minutes, timeout will send a kill signal to it to allow it to exit cleanly (can't remember if it does), then after 10 more minutes (maximum) it will force-kill it. Not sure what the status of busy files will be then, though...

But, I recently switched to polling through binkd so I'm immune now. :)
But it worked fine for at least a year or so.

Best regards
Zip

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