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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’m playing around a bit with systemd’s socket based activation of systemd-journald. My intention is to shift back in time the actual startup of systemd-journald.service to save resources (CPU) for early applications during startup. The
respective socket is activated as usual to not lose any early (sys)logs. The actual startup of the service is delayed by adding some dependencies to targets (basic.target for instance).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In principal, the idea is working as expected but sometimes the logging via syslog(“..”) blocks applications until the daemon is actually started. Depending on how the startup of such application is integrated into the startup configuration,
this might lead to deadlock situations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone here any idea how one can prevent the blocking situation.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Some observations:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- The blocking situation is not happening on each syslog call, sometimes this happens after one call, sometimes after a few calls. I wasn’t able by now isolating the concrete case that leads to a blocking socket<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- I doubt that the underlying socket buffer is full<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">- The call is blocked by the kernel syscall send() that is invoked by the syslog() call<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thx in advance for any hints …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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