I have seen this now several times:
I have one very weak device (Raspi) which has (amongst several smaller ones) one very big folder. (About 665.000 files and 23k dirs.)
When I pause the big folder all is fine. sc starts and scans everything and eventually all is synced.
But when i activate the big folder (which I did reset 2 days ago by changing its id) it takes a while and finally syncthing reaches this state:
syncthing processes are constantly (maybe every second) starting and stopping.
sudo service syncthing@sync stop does not seem to do anything.
dmesg -w -T stopped printing sc logs 2 hours ago …
Last messages:
[Mo Sep 17 21:10:56 2018] systemd[1]: syncthing@backup.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
[Mo Sep 17 21:28:53 2018] systemd[1]: syncthing@backup.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
[Mo Sep 17 21:34:04 2018] systemd[1]: Unit syncthing@backup.service entered failed state.
[Mo Sep 17 21:34:04 2018] systemd[1]: syncthing@backup.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
[Mo Sep 17 21:34:06 2018] systemd[1]: Unit syncthing@backup.service entered failed state.
[Mo Sep 17 21:34:06 2018] systemd[1]: syncthing@backup.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
sudo service syncthing@sync status prints this:
● syncthing@sync.service - Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization for sync
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/syncthing@.service; enabled)
Active: inactive (dead) since Mo 2018-09-17 16:17:53 UTC; 5h 21min ago
Docs: man:syncthing(1)
Process: 30583 ExecStart=/usr/bin/syncthing -no-browser -no-restart -logflags=0 (code=killed, signal=PIPE)
Main PID: 30583 (code=killed, signal=PIPE)
Sep 17 16:16:16 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:16 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:16 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 16:16:19 device-name syncthing[30583]: [2H2VL] INFO: Puller (folder "MY BIG FOLDER" (folder-id), file "some/dir/in/the/folder...sion of this file
Sep 17 21:35:12 device-name systemd[1]: Stopped Syncthing - Open Source Continuous File Synchronization for sync.
I tried to manually kill these sc processes, to no avail.
The only thing that helped solve this situation was rebooting.
EDIT: I just found out i can simply start sc again.
But there is still one sc process being constantly restarted:
top
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
31356 sync 31 11 813260 283688 7880 S 227,8 30,0 12:06.16 syncthing
32594 backup 20 0 808124 8072 6320 R 29,1 0,9 0:00.88 syncthing << this one
It has a different user though … how is this possible at all?
What is happening here? What can i do?
Greetings Fred;
p.s. thinking about this: I believe the crash and the rampant processes are two unrelated phenomena.