Re: [Cflowd] Resource temporarily unavailable and Connection refused

From: Atsuo Hirai (hirai@iri.co.jp)
Date: Sun Dec 08 2002 - 23:36:38 PST

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    Marcus,
    Thank you for your advice.

    I found some unreleased semaphores.
    So, I removed them and set following parameters in my cflowd.conf and
    restart cflowd. (PKTBUFSIZE:10485760 was not enough in my environment.)

            PKTBUFSIZE: 16777216
            NUMFLOWFILES: 20

    Then, the error messages went away :-).

    I use following script to stop cflowd.

    | 'stop')
    | for i in cfdcollect cflowd cflowdmux
    | do
    | sleep 2
    | killall -15 $i && echo "graceful shutdown of $i"
    | done

    But, an unreleased semaphore remains every time...;-)
    Do you have any good idea?

    On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 09:23:32 -0800
    "Marcus Beaman" <marcus.beaman@state.or.us> wrote:

    > Atsuo,
    >
    > In my cflowd.conf I increased the PKTBUFSIZE and the NUMFLOWFILES and the error
    > went away:
    > PKTBUFSIZE: 10485760
    > NUMFLOWFILES: 20
    >
    > However, I think you might have a semaphore/shared memory problem. In this case
    > you can (1) reboot the system or (2) use the ipcs/ipcrm commands to list and
    > remove the bad semaphore(s)/shared memory segment(s). Try the man pages for
    > ipcs, but for freebsd the "ipcs -a" command should list all active semaphores.
    > After you kill the cflowd/cflowdmux processes you should not see a
    > semaphore/shared memory entry for the account under which cflowd is running. If
    > you do see an entry then you have an unreleased semaphore set or shared memory
    > segment. This has happened to me before (once in two years) and the result was
    > one of the services (cflowd/cflowdmux and I don't remember which) were unable to
    > bind to their port (if memory serves me). This may be giving you the
    > "Connection refused" syslog entry. You can then use ipcrm to remove the
    > semaphore/share memory entry, for freebsd I used "ipcrm -s <key#>. Hope this
    > helps and sorry for the lengthy reply :)
    >
    > <snip>
    > > Dec 6 08:00:29 stat02 cflowdmux[16983]: [E] semop(65540,0xbfbfefbc,1) failed
    > to
    > > release buffer lock: Resource temporarily unavailable
    > {CflowdPacketQueue.cc:438
    > > }
    > So, I tried to change the value of PKTBUFSIZE in my cflowd.conf from
    > 2097152 to more larger value.
    > However, if the value is changed, they doesn't work with following
    > messages. TABLESOCKFILE(/tmp/cflowdtable.socket) not created.
    > > Dec 6 18:11:13 stat02 cfdcollect[36616]: [E] connect(4,0x80fb0e4,16) (host
    > loca
    > > lhost port 2056) failed: Connection refused {CflowdServer.cc:112}
    > > Dec 6 18:11:13 stat02 cfdcollect[36616]: [I] sleeping for 299 seconds.
    > </snip>
    >
    > -Marcus
    >
    > --------------------------------------------
    > Marcus Beaman DAS/IRMD/DVS
    > State of Oregon, Network Operations Analyst
    > (503) 378-3627 hotline
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