From: David Steele <david@pgmasters.net>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net>
To: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
Cc: pgsql-admin@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: pgBackRest : "ERROR: [042]: unexpected EOF reading line from remote process on" and stale pgbackrest processes hanging
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:50:27 +0200
Message-ID: <5dca01e0-0cd9-2064-571f-473e97b82087@pgmasters.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190116202758.GG2528@tamriel.snowman.net>
References: <e7d0ac3f-cf49-7d04-87b7-0944a46207e0@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
<20190116202758.GG2528@tamriel.snowman.net>
On 1/16/19 10:27 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Achilleas Mantzios (achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com) wrote:
>>
>> Is this behavior normal ? Would the 4 processes be killed due to KEEPALIVE settings eventually ?
>
> Yes, they almost certainly would have timed out eventually- but how
> long were you already waiting..? The timeouts in pgbackrest are not
> terribly long, in general.
By default the remote processes will shutdown after 30 minutes if they
have not gotten a message from the main process. This is controlled by
the `protocol-timeout` option.
It's a bit unusual for them to get stuck like this -- usually they get
an eof and exit immediately. Definitely looks like something was up
with SSH.
Regards,
--
-David
david@pgmasters.net
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Subject: Re: pgBackRest : "ERROR: [042]: unexpected EOF reading line from remote process on" and stale pgbackrest processes hanging
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