long time in setup?

[Steffen Grunewald]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 10:44:58PM +0200, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > I've got a host that spends a lot of time in task_setup:
> > 
> > 05-05-26:10:14:58       zweistein check
> > 05-05-26:10:14:58       zweistein TASKEND confdir 0
> > 05-05-26:10:14:58       zweistein TASKBEGIN setup
> > 05-05-26:10:18:09       zweistein TASKEND setup 0
> > 05-05-26:10:18:09       zweistein TASKBEGIN defclass
> > 05-05-26:10:18:31       zweistein TASKEND defclass 0
> > 
> > Note that it takes more than 3 minutes to return from setup
> > 
> > Another one (*almost* same hardware) takes only seconds:
> > 
> > 05-05-25:14:46:14       deimos check
> > 05-05-25:14:46:14       deimos TASKEND confdir 0
> > 05-05-25:14:46:14       deimos TASKBEGIN setup
> > 05-05-25:14:46:14       deimos TASKEND setup 0
> > 05-05-25:14:46:14       deimos TASKBEGIN defclass
> > 05-05-25:14:46:22       deimos TASKEND defclass 0
> >
> 
> IMHO the only things in this tasks, that could suffer from timeouts are those
> two lines:
> 
>        [ "$TIMESRVS_1" ] && rdate $TIMESRVS_1
>        [ "$NTPSRVS_1" ]  && ntpdate -b -v $NTPSRVS

Hmmm, don't think that would cause it (both boxen are in the same subnet)
so they should behave similarly wrt/ time sync.
And IIRC ntpdate has a shorter timeout, not 3 minutes

Still puzzled,
 Steffen

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