Taskd hanging

[djmitche]

The taskd service in freecinc is hanging after only tens of requests are served (sometimes 10 or so, sometimes up to 50).

I have long had a "liveness probe" that checks the TCP port for accessibility, and restarts the container if it fails -- but it takes a while for that to time out, leaving taskd nonresponsive in the interim.

Any advice for debugging this? It's in a container, so I can't use strace to see what the process is up to (no CAP_SYS_PTRACE).

[dgrabla]

I observed this as well. It is a problem I had on my taskd for years. The server is there and pick up the requests, but it does not answer and the clients block till the connection timeouts. The solution that works for me is a periodic restart. I could not trace the issue.

[djmitche]

Thanks! I've started running it on my VPS and I'm now having the same issues. Maybe taskdctl in a crontask will help?

[dgrabla]

While taskdctl is without a doubt better than my horrible 'killall taskd; nohup taskd', it is still a nasty workaround. There must be a reason why the beast hangs.

[djmitche]

Taskd won't be continued.

[dgrabla]

@djmitche Sorry I've not been following the project. Is the recommended way to sync tasks to sync the files themselves? Should be using git to take over the merges? Is taskd 'complete' as as such it will not need maintenance?

[djmitche]

It's been unmaintained for quite a while, and there's a replacement in the works, so it's unlikely this bug will ever be addressed. For the moment, taskd is still the recommended way, with occasional restarts due to hangs and memory leaks.