Bug#789796: systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.

[Bernhard Schmidt]

Hi,

> Am 07.10.2015 um 13:41 schrieb Alexander Barton:
>> Am 07.10.2015 um 13:12 schrieb Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org>:
>>  
>>> Am 07.10.2015 um 10:13 schrieb Alexander Barton:
>>>> FYI, we are seeing this here as well:
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:21 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:22 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:23 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:25 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:26 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:27 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:28 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:29 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:30 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:31 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> Oct 07 10:11:33 testhost systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Debian 8, systemd 215 (215-17+deb8u2).
>>>
>>> Can you reproduce the problem?
>>
>> Up to now I can't reproduce the problem: after rebooting the system everything
>> seems to work just fine …
> 
> How often did you run into the issue? Just once?

I have had this issue several times now. It happened in a KVM VM
(Jessie) with seriously slow disk I/O (broken ZFS in the host _and_
misbalanced btrfs filesystem in the guest).

Since I've fixed the ZFS and rebalanced the filesystem it did not happen
again.

Bernhard

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