Bug#789796: systemd looping too fast

Michael Tokarev mjt at tls.msk.ru
Thu Jun 9 08:06:45 BST 2016


I applied the suggested patch to our systemd as well.
We were hit badly by this bug, about 400 systems are
generating these messages and spam logs (actually
only just a few we upgraded from sysvinit to systemd,
we stopped the process due to this).

After applying the patch, systemd does not produce
these "Looping too fast" messages at the original scale
anymore.  However, there are still several such messages
being generated at bootup:

...
Jun 08 13:43:47 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Starting Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes...
Jun 08 13:43:47 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes.
Jun 08 13:43:47 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Startup finished in 2.929s (kernel) + 28.032s (userspace) = 30.962s.
Jun 08 13:43:57 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Jun 08 13:43:58 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Jun 08 13:43:59 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Jun 08 13:44:01 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Looping too fast. Throttling execution a little.
Jun 08 13:44:54 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru ntpd_intres[2240]: DNS ntp.msk.rgs-podm.ru -> 10.77.7.90
Jun 08 13:48:12 f0046-pushkino.rgs-podm.ru systemd[1]: Time has been changed
...

I don't know how problematic it is.

Thanks,

/mjt



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