[hobbit] hobbitfetch infinite loop?

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 23:31 +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:43:58AM -0600, Daniel J McDonald wrote:
> > Every couple of days I note that hobbitfetch is hung:
> >   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            
> > 30444 hobbit    25   0  2020 1016  616 R 96.3  0.0   3869:03 hobbitfetch 
> > 
> > I then go kill -9 the hobbitfetch process, and it starts "working" again, 
> 
> Next time, please do a "kill -6" and run the resulting coredump through
> gdb to get the stacktrace (see the "Reporting bugs" online help).
> 
> If possible, I'd also like to have a copy of the coredump and the
> hobbitfetch binary.

I've sent you a couple of those in the past...

On a whim, I specified IP addresses for those servers (rather than
0.0.0.0) and the infinite loop issue went away.  I still get the 
- Program crashed
Fatal signal caught!

message on the hobbitfetch monitoring page, but it is still pulling down
data much of the time.

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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CISSP # 78281, CNX
Austin Energy
http://www.austinenergy.com