[Spread-users] Answer_retrans: retrans of 1 requested while Aru is 14

John Lane Schultz jschultz at spreadconcepts.com
Mon Feb 11 14:58:35 EST 2008


Following up on my last point, did this occur in a long running system
or had you just started up the daemon(s)?

Cheers!
John

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John Lane Schultz
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Monday, February 11, 2008, 2:56:48 PM, you wrote:

> I can't tell you why that occurred but I can say what the error means.  The
> daemon that crashed believed that all the other daemons had
> acknowledged receiving up through message #14.  But then it looks like one of
> the daemons requested a resend of message #1.  This shouldn't happen
> because the requesting daemon had (allegedly) already acknowledged
> receiving up through message #14.

> This could be some kind of wrap around problem with the message
> counter?  The fact that the message numbers were so small (1, 14) around the
> time of this failure strikes me as suspicious ...

> Cheers!
> John

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> John Lane Schultz
> Spread Concepts LLC
> Phn: 443 838 2200 
> Fax: 301 560 8875

> Monday, February 11, 2008, 2:37:37 PM, you wrote:

>> Today we experienced a spread 4.0.0 daemon crash.

>> The log had this:

>> [Mon 11 Feb 2008 13:21:00] Answer_retrans: retrans of 1 requested while Aru is 14
>> Exit caused by Alarm(EXIT)

>> Looks like this message was generated in daemon/protocol.c:788

>> But I'm not familiar enough with the source to know exactly what's
>> going on at this point.  Overflow, maybe?

>> Has anyone seen this before?

>> This is the first daemon crash we're aware of since upgrading from
>> 4.0.0rc2.

>> Thanks!
>> Matt


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