Re: slow to take action

[Martin Pala]

On Jun 18, 2011, at 5:43 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:

> 
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Nick Upson wrote:
> 
> 
>> Sorry I wasn't clear, the reason that restarting a local process takes a 
>> long time is that monit is stepping through all the remote host checks, the 
>> status says that the operation is pending, so it has received the 
>> instruction, rather than just recording the request and doing it later, 
>> could monit take the action immediately and then return to checking the 
>> remote hosts.


When the action is requested (scheduled via http/CLI), main monit thread wakes 
up immediately, walks the services list and performs the actions (no tests are 
performed - the action is executed directly). The tests are started after all 
actions were processed.

The "operation pending" message is displayed by the http interface until 
refresh - the autorefresh equals to monit poll cycle length, so the action may 
have been performed almost immediately after you requested it, but the client 
still display the "pending" state (you can refresh the http interface manually 
to re-read the state before autorefresh).


Regards,
Martin