Re: [pcp] pmcd gets stuck with pmda kill

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Martins,

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> Yes, this would be my example posted that showed a backtrace with a
> problem in AgentsAttributes:
> [...]
> 
>  >killall -v pmdaproc
>      Killed pmdaproc(23682) with signal 15
> 
>  >pmval pmcd.agent.status
>      pmval: pmLookupDesc: IPC protocol failure
> 
>  >pmval hinv.ncpu
>      pmval: pmLookupDesc: IPC protocol failure
> 
>  >pminfo hinv.ncpu
>      Error: hinv.ncpu: Broken pipe
> 
> The only thing that brings it back to life is a "pminfo", "pminfo proc",
> or if a pmlogger instance is logging a proc metric.
> 

I've just pushed the fix for this into the dev branch, could you
give it a whirl and double check it for me?

Also, let me know if you're still interested in hacking on that
restarting-privileged-PMDAs aspect.  Its not on my TODO list yet
and quite a few other things precede that, unfortunately.  :(

cheers.

--
Nathan