[lxc-devel] how to tell lxc-monitord to go away?

[Dwight Engen]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2013 09:16:34 +0100
Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel at aixigo.de> wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> If I shut down my drbd partition to mount it on another
> host, then lxc-monitord keeps the mount point busy for at
> least 30 seconds. This means additional 30 seconds
> unavailability of the service provided by the container.
> Highly painful.

Hi Harald, I think the 30 seconds could certainly be shortened. We just
didn't want monitord to be "long lived" so I just picked 30 seconds. I
can see why this is painful in your situation.

> Do you think it would be possible to write down the PID
> somewhere to support "kill `cat /somepath/lxc/lxc-monitord.pid`"
> as usual? Or is there an undocumented feature in lxc-monitor,
> e.g. "lxc-monitor -P /somepath/lxc --kill"?
 
There isn't such a feature now, but it probably wouldn't be hard to
add, I'll look into it.
 
> Many thanx in advance
> Harri
> 
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