The agent detaches from its parent and can kill it with no problems.

--Eystein

On 03/11/2010 08:51 PM, Lebel, Marco wrote:
> Glad that you are suggesting this since I was playing with the idea but 
> before I go ahead and do it I have the following question:
>
> If the process running cf-agent kills the cf-execd parent process do I not 
> shoot myself down since killing the parent usually means killing the children 
> hence I will no longer be around to restart cf-execd and I will have lost the 
> email report from the run that shot cf-execd down?
>
> Note my cf-execd is run in daemon mode not through the crontab
>
> Marco,
>
> Ps. Sorry I had not included the mailing list earlier
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Burgess [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 2:14 PM
> To: Francoeur, Louis
> Cc: Lebel, Marco; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: cf-execd&  cf-monitord - Memory leaks?
>
>
> Incidentally, as a work around you can simply get cf-agent to restart 
> cf-execd once a week
> or once per day for that matter.
>
> M
>
> Francoeur, Louis wrote:
>> After installing 3.0.4, we let cfengine run for almost 24 hours
>> and it looks like we still have a memory leak.
>>
>> Wed Mar 10 14:13:13 EST 2010
>> 2076K cf-execd
>>
>> Thu Mar 11 13:04:28 EST 2010
>> 4508K cf-execd
>>
>> Louis
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] 
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Burgess
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:50 PM
>> To: Lebel, Marco
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: cf-execd&  cf-monitord - Memory leaks?
>>
>>
>> Yes, try upgrading
>>
>> Lebel, Marco wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Is there a known bug with the community version 3.0.2 for a memory leak
>>> of any sorts?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I do not have all of the details but when I start cf-execd (daemon mode)
>>> it uses close to 3M of memory on my servers and after some two weeks it
>>> shots up to 322M!!!!  To me it looks like a memory leak but then again I
>>> have been known to be wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Marco
>>>
>>>
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