[hobbit] Oversize status or data/client msg

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:18:20AM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
>>What is the unit for "n" and "limit" -is it really bytes?- in following 
>>messages:
>>
>>Oversize data/client msg from 1.2.3.4 truncated (n=815596, limit 524288)
>>Oversize status msg from 1.2.3.5 for smaug:ports truncated (n=370718, 
>>limit=262144)
> 
> 
> It is.
> 
> 
>>I'm asking this because although we get quite offen messages like above, 
>>the biggest file stored in the histlogs is only ~75 KB.
>>
>>[bb at iris data]$ find hist* -size +75000c -exec ls -la {} \;
>>-rw-r--r--    1 bb       ci          95558 May  9 11:07 ./hist/allevents
>>-rw-r--r--    1 bb       ci          76828 May  5 11:41 
>>./histlogs/zeb1/ports/Fri_May_5_11:40:59_2006
> 
> 
> The client message can get very large - you must consider that it
> contains all of the information used to generate both the cpu-, disk-,
> procs-, msgs-, ports- and files-status columns. Including a full ps- 
> and netstat-listing.
> 
> If you want to handle such large messages, look at the MAXMSG_* settings
> in hobbitserver.cfg - see the hobbitserver.cfg(5) man-page.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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Thanks.

We had to specify MAXMSG_* in bytes but the man page says KB ;-)
(Using snapshot of 25 april.)


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne