4.2-beta - large client data causes clientdata task to crash 🔗 link

Hi Henrik,

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
2006-06-09 15:42:56 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2006-06-09 15:47:58 Task clientdata terminated, status 1

hobbitd.log
2006-06-09 15:24:53 Setup complete
2006-06-09 15:27:50 Oversize stachg msg from 10.52.41.22 for rs010a:ports
truncated (n=284932, limit=262144)
2006-06-09 15:27:50 Oversize status msg from 10.52.41.22 for rs010a:ports
truncated (n=284943, limit=262144)

clientdata.log
2006-06-09 15:47:58 Worker process died with exit code 0, terminating

No core files are generated.

I have set MAXLINE to 524288 in hobbitserver.cfg

Is there another parameter I need to tweak to cater for the large amount of
client data?

Regards,

Chris


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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 03:59:39PM +0100, Morris, Chris (Shared Services) wrote:

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