[hobbit] 4.2-beta - large client data causes clientdata task to crash

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) wrote:
> 
> I have a hobbit client (AIX 5.1) attempting to send >340000 bytes of data to
> the hobbit server (AIX 5.2) - mainly output from ports test.
> 
> The result is the clientdata task terminates and the client rrd files are
> not updated. 
> 
> hobbitlaunch.log 
> 2006-06-09 15:24:53 Loading saved state
> 2006-06-09 15:24:53 Setting up network listener on 0.0.0.0:1984
> 2006-06-09 15:24:53 Setting up signal handlers
> 2006-06-09 15:24:53 Setting up hobbitd channels
> 2006-06-09 15:24:53 Setting up logfiles
> 2006-06-09 15:27:51 Task bbhistory terminated, status 1
> 2006-06-09 15:32:52 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
> 2006-06-09 15:37:54 Task clientdata terminated, status 1

A large client message shouldn't be causing problems. It might get
truncated and thereby lose some data, but it should cause the clientdata
task to stop.

If you could send me a copy of the large message (taken directly from
the clients' ~hobbit/client/tmp/msg*txt file), your hobbit-clients.cfg
file and the host-entry in bb-hosts, that would be very helpful.

BTW, the MAXLINE setting is for compatibility with BB extension script.
If you want to bump the max. size of client messages, see the
MAXMSG_CLIENT setting in the hobbitserver.cfg(5) man-page.


Regards,
Henrik