[Nut-upsuser] Upssched 100% CPU after updating Debian 12

Kari Lempiäinen kari.lempiainen at summerday.net
Tue Jun 13 17:38:03 BST 2023


Hi,

Great work Jim! I’m glad you could reproduce the problem and found a potential culprit.

Just for my own interest I restored upsshed from my backups (version 2.7.4-13) and it seems to running ok, so no big runtime changes regarding that with Debian 12. It is not hogging CPU. From the daemon log the heartbeat seems to be working ok. Only difference between the old logs (pre Debian 12 update) is the there is this line (Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.0) every five minutes.

Jun 13 19:17:08 fricka upssched[1896873]: Timer daemon started
Jun 13 19:17:08 fricka upssched[1896873]: New timer: heartbeat-failure-timer (660 seconds)
Jun 13 19:17:08 fricka nut-monitor[1896870]: Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.0
Jun 13 19:22:08 fricka nut-monitor[1899911]: Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.0
Jun 13 19:27:08 fricka upssched[1896873]: Cancelling timer: heartbeat-failure-timer
Jun 13 19:27:08 fricka upssched[1896873]: New timer: heartbeat-failure-timer (660 seconds)
Jun 13 19:27:08 fricka nut-monitor[1903379]: Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.0
Jun 13 19:32:13 fricka nut-monitor[1906677]: Network UPS Tools upsmon 2.8.0

That line wasn’t there previously. I will leave the old version in place until nut gets fixed and it’s been provided by Debian.

This actually reminded me of a similar problem I had myself a loooong time ago. I was writing a large software distribution program for a Windows platform. The connection between server and client were done by TCP sockets. In my server code there was place where I read reply from the client and the read (from socket) function didn’t return error code, but the data length was 0. In the documentation, at least at the time, it wasn’t specified directly that it was an error situation. My server code looped in a thread hogging CPU. When I modified the code to treat 0 bytes read as an error, everything worked fine.

Best regards,
Kari

From: Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, 13. June 2023 at 18.36
To: Kari Lempiäinen <kari.lempiainen at summerday.net>
Cc: Arnaud Quette via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net>, nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net>, Dimitris Economou <dimitris.s.economou at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Upssched 100% CPU after updating Debian 12
So... determining that FD is to be reaped proved hard. Internet lore suggests fcntl() and poll() on the FD, but it just seems valid to them. The errno is also usually not raised (once I saw a "111: Connection refused" though).
So the best dumb idea so far is to bail out if we spent the whole loop (128 attempts) and only got zero-sized read replies and no errors.

https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pull/1965

Jim

On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 4:06 PM Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com<mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut at gmail.com>> wrote:
After launching the command several times, with debug (posted by new code in a new branch for the investigation) confirming that the same daemon handles operations from the new client instances, its strace now has numerous FDs to report after select() - so I guess it is a problem of detecting an exit of the counterpart.


   0.000000     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000034     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000041     [D1] parse_at: processing CANCEL-TIMER
   0.000054     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000057     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000060     [D1] parse_at: processing START-TIMER
   0.000151     [D1] Keeping stderr open due to debug verbosity 8
   0.000195     Timer daemon started
   0.000204     [D2] Timer daemon waiting for connections on pipefd 10
   0.250325     [D3] new connection on fd 7
   0.250377     New timer: heartbeat-failure-timer (660 seconds)
   0.250423     [D1] Exiting upssched (CLI process)

   0.000000     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000039     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000047     [D1] parse_at: processing CANCEL-TIMER
  14.745773     [D3] new connection on fd 8
  14.745829     Cancelling timer: heartbeat-failure-timer
   0.000153     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000159     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000163     [D1] parse_at: processing START-TIMER
  14.745890     [D3] new connection on fd 9
  14.745969     New timer: heartbeat-failure-timer (660 seconds)
   0.000293     [D1] Exiting upssched (CLI process)

   0.000001     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000042     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000050     [D1] parse_at: processing CANCEL-TIMER
  47.674032     [D3] new connection on fd 11
  47.674160     Cancelling timer: heartbeat-failure-timer
   0.000266     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000277     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000284     [D1] parse_at: processing START-TIMER
  47.674235     [D3] new connection on fd 12
  47.674388     New timer: heartbeat-failure-timer (660 seconds)
   0.000487     [D1] Exiting upssched (CLI process)

Note that `select` only lists remnants of "new connection" but not the FD#10 (pipefd):

    select(13, [7 8 9 10 11 12], NULL, NULL, {tv_sec=1, tv_usec=0}) = 5 (in [7 8 9 11 12], left {tv_sec=0, tv_usec=999997})

Jim



On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 3:41 PM Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com<mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut at gmail.com>> wrote:
So, got some good news: I hear(*) I managed to reproduce the problem with current NUT master and an adapted copy of your posted configs and script :D
Experimental debugging now sounds possible.

(*) PC under the desk wails with all its cooling fans as soon as I started the client which spawned a daemon and itself had exited:

$ UPSNAME=heartbeat at localhost NOTIFYTYPE=ONBATT NUT_STATEPATH=/dev/shm NUT_CONFPATH=`pwd`/tests/NIT/tmp/etc ./clients/upssched -DDDDDDDD
   0.000000     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000053     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000066     [D1] parse_at: processing CANCEL-TIMER
   0.000089     [D2] parse_at: is 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command the 'heartbeat at localhost' we were launched to process?
   0.000096     [D1] parse_at: 'heartbeat at localhost' in AT command matched the 'heartbeat at localhost' UPSNAME we were launched to process
   0.000104     [D1] parse_at: processing START-TIMER

$

Jim


On Tue, Jun 13, 2023 at 1:58 PM Kari Lempiäinen <kari.lempiainen at summerday.net<mailto:kari.lempiainen at summerday.net>> wrote:
Hi,

Thanks Jim! Here is more system information from the commands you mentioned.

Kari

root at fricka:~# lsof -p 1716171
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1002/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
COMMAND      PID USER   FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF     NODE NAME
upssched 1716171 root  cwd    DIR                8,2     4096        2 /
upssched 1716171 root  rtd    DIR                8,2     4096        2 /
upssched 1716171 root  txt    REG                8,2    39240 21762148 /usr/sbin/upssched
upssched 1716171 root  mem    REG                8,2  1922136 21764230 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
upssched 1716171 root  mem    REG                8,2   210968 21764476 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
upssched 1716171 root    0u   CHR                1,3      0t0        4 /dev/null
upssched 1716171 root    1u   CHR                1,3      0t0        4 /dev/null
upssched 1716171 root    2u   CHR                1,3      0t0        4 /dev/null
upssched 1716171 root    3u  unix 0x00000000eeb52825      0t0 16427010 type=DGRAM (CONNECTED)
upssched 1716171 root    4r   REG                8,2      545 39847858 /etc/nut/upssched.conf
upssched 1716171 root    5u  unix 0x00000000a035b466      0t0 16426351 type=STREAM (UNCONNECTED)
upssched 1716171 root    6u  unix 0x0000000050820b2b      0t0 16426352 type=STREAM (UNCONNECTED)
upssched 1716171 root    7u  unix 0x00000000447aac0e      0t0 16424724 /var/run/nut/upssched.pipe type=STREAM (CONNECTED)
upssched 1716171 root   10u  unix 0x00000000d7bd8088      0t0 16424722 /var/run/nut/upssched.pipe type=STREAM (LISTEN)


root at fricka:~# ps -ef|grep ups
root        1425       1  0 Jun11 ?        00:00:00 sshd: /usr/sbin/sshd -D [listener] 0 of 10-100 startups
root     1156722       1  0 00:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -l
root     1156723       1  0 00:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/cups-browsed
lp       1156748 1156722  0 00:00 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/cups/notifier/dbus dbus://
nut      1713117       1  0 14:30 ?        00:00:00 /lib/nut/dummy-ups -a heartbeat
nut      1713154       1  0 14:30 ?        00:00:00 /lib/nut/usbhid-ups -a eaton5s
nut      1713155       1  0 14:30 ?        00:00:00 /lib/nut/upsd -F
root     1713156       1  0 14:30 ?        00:00:00 /lib/nut/upsmon -F
root     1713157 1713156  0 14:30 ?        00:00:00 /lib/nut/upsmon -F
root     1716171       1 99 14:35 ?        00:05:10 /sbin/upssched UPS heartbeat at localhost: On battery.
root     1719510 1550505  0 14:40 pts/2    00:00:00 grep ups




root at fricka:~# fuser /var/run/nut/upssched.pipe
/run/nut/upssched.pipe: 1716171


root at fricka:/proc/1716171/fd# ls -la
total 0
dr-x------ 2 root root  0 Jun 13 14:36 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root root  0 Jun 13 14:35 ..
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 0 -> /dev/null
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 1 -> /dev/null
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 10 -> 'socket:[16424722]'
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 2 -> /dev/null
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 3 -> 'socket:[16427010]'
lr-x------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 4 -> /etc/nut/upssched.conf
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 5 -> 'socket:[16426351]'
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 6 -> 'socket:[16426352]'
lrwx------ 1 root root 64 Jun 13 14:36 7 -> 'socket:[16424724]'



________________________________
From: Jim Klimov <jimklimov+nut at gmail.com<mailto:jimklimov%2Bnut at gmail.com>>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 14:17
To: Kari Lempiäinen <kari.lempiainen at summerday.net<mailto:kari.lempiainen at summerday.net>>
Cc: Arnaud Quette via Nut-upsuser <nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net<mailto:nut-upsuser at alioth-lists.debian.net>>; nut-upsdev <nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net<mailto:nut-upsdev at alioth-lists.debian.net>>; Dimitris Economou <dimitris.s.economou at gmail.com<mailto:dimitris.s.economou at gmail.com>>
Subject: Re: [Nut-upsuser] Upssched 100% CPU after updating Debian 12

FWIW, cross-posted the issue to NUT GitHub tracker: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/1964

Jim
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