[systemd-devel] service stop taking too long

Pradeepa Kumar cdpradeepa at gmail.com
Wed May 18 14:51:24 UTC 2016


My understanding is ExecStop will be called before sending SIGTERM to
service.
if it is true then systemd took 42 sec to initiate stop sequence (calling
script in ExecStop) and send SIGTERM to service.
please correct me if I am wrong

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>
wrote:

>
>
> Am 18.05.2016 um 16:23 schrieb Pradeepa Kumar:
>
>> I have a script in ExecStop in service file.
>> In journalctl, The time difference between "Stopping XYZ service " and
>> logs from my script in ExecStop is 42 sec.
>> Does that mean systemd itself took long time to start stopping of
>> service?
>>
>
> no, it means systemd is only the messenger and your script took 42 seconds
> to finish
>
> On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Lennart Poettering
>> <lennart at poettering.net <mailto:lennart at poettering.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Wed, 18.05.16 16:00, Pradeepa Kumar (cdpradeepa at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:cdpradeepa at gmail.com>) wrote:
>>
>>     > Hi experts,
>>     > I am using systemd v219.
>>     > I need help with a systemd issue that I am seeing.
>>     > I see that some times stopping of service is taking long time (42
>> sec).
>>     > i checked this in journal logs also.
>>     >  is this is known issue ?
>>     > how do i debug this ?
>>     >  and any solutions ?
>>
>>     Well, that depends on the specific service. If a specific service
>>     takes 42s to shut down, then try figuring out what it does. If there's
>>     nothing in the journal, then maybe the service maintains its own logs?
>>     If it does not, see if you can turn on debug logging for it.
>>
>>     Either way, that's really a question to ask the maintainers of that
>>     service, not to systemd upstream.
>>
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