[osiris] Re: osiris schedualing and faulty hosts...

[lemmings]

Hi,

On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 11:16:28AM -0000, Tim Nicholas wrote:
> Is there a timeout I can set for the scan process? It seems like there should
> be one by default, and like the schedualer shouldn't be waiting for one host
> to finish before kicking off a scan of another host...

Osiris performs a number of blocking reads and writes in
md_scan.c:scan_host() to first start the scan before finally forking a
scan process to read the results. Unfortunately this leads to its
fragile behaviour that you have observed.

start_scan_handler() should really be called much earlier in the
scan_host() function...

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