Re: pserver processes

[Mark]

cvs 1.11.1p1 server/client on solaris 2.6 and cvs 1.11 client on Windows NT
(plus some mach next 3.3 machine clients 1.11.1p1). We are running psever with
non-root account from inetd.conf

I usually wait more than 24hrs before cleaning up misc pserver processes.

Is it possible that the client is responding to the KEEPALIVE signal, even
though it no longer needs/uses that particular pserver process? on UNIX the
client process exits after the command runs, I am unsure about windows and
WinCVS.

Is there a way to test and see if the KEEPALIVE option is being used?

Mark

--- Larry Jones <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > 
> > there seems to be cvs pserver processes hanging around after the respective
> > client has gone on to bigger and better things.
> 
> What release of CVS and what platform?
> 
> That indicates that clients are going away without properly closing
> their connections to the server.  That shouldn't happen unless the
> client machine crashes or there's some kind of network failure.  Because
> of the way TCP/IP works, the server doesn't have any way to know that
> that has happened until it tries to send data to the client.  If the
> server is reading data from the client rather than writing, it will
> never receive any notification.  Whenever possible, pserver uses the
> KEEPALIVE option on its sockets which is supposed to cause the OS to
> periodically send "Are you still there?" packets across idle connections
> to detect this condition -- it's possible that KEEPALIVE either isn't
> available on your platform (or the configure script thinks it isn't for
> some reason) or doesn't work correctly.  It's also possible that you
> just haven't waited long enough: most systems have fairly long timeouts
> to avoid dropping connections due to temporary network problems (RFC1122
> prohibits sending KEEPALIVE packets until a connection has been idle for
> at least two hours).
> 
> -Larry Jones
> 
> Oh yeah?  You just wait! -- Calvin


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