Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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PoltoS
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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JohannesF wrote:
17 Jan 2023 22:06
In parallel I have deleted the current log file with the result that no new file has been created. No logging at all.
After a reboot the system started to build and fill the log file. Again, nothing related to the issue we've been discussing here.
This is how Unix works. When you delete a file opened by some program (Z-Way in your case), it is not deleted, but removed from the folder to become orphaned until all handles are closed. The Unix way to solve it is to send USR1 signal to the program. This will instruct the program to re-open log file. Good Unix programs follow this recommendations. Z-Way is doing it too. And logrotate is relying on this.

So, this is by design, but maybe a bit counterintuitive.
lanbrown
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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So far four days and the polling is at 1 second.

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● z-way-server.service - LSB: RaZberry Z-Wave service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/z-way-server; generated)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/z-way-server.service.d
             └─override.conf
     Active: active (running) since Fri 2023-01-13 16:22:37 CST; 4 days ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
    Process: 22668 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/z-way-server start (code=exited, status>
      Tasks: 14 (limit: 4915)
        CPU: 3d 13h 47min 4.136s
     CGroup: /system.slice/z-way-server.service
             └─22673 z-way-server
Unfortunately this weekend I'm going to have to stop it. It'll be moving to its new home.
JohannesF
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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Thanks, Poltos. Unix and I are not (yet) good friends. But I am learning from each and every mistake I make.
lanbrown
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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I had the first crash:

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z-way-server	OK	25m	2.4%	0.9% [74.9 MB]	334.4 B/s	403.7 B/s

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sudo service z-way-server status
● z-way-server.service - LSB: RaZberry Z-Wave service
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/z-way-server; generated)
    Drop-In: /etc/systemd/system/z-way-server.service.d
             └─override.conf
     Active: active (exited) since Fri 2023-01-13 16:22:37 CST; 1 weeks 2 days ago
       Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
      Tasks: 0 (limit: 4915)
        CPU: 0
     CGroup: /system.slice/z-way-server.service
JohannesF
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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I am sad to hear that. My system is still running.
Have you been running Z-Way in debugging environment?
Fingers crossed that Poltos can find the root cause.
lanbrown
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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I did not have it under gdb. I think part of the issue is that it is too much for a Raspberry Pi 4B. Believe it or not, the system felt quicker with a five second polling than one second. I think I'm going to extend the time to say 2 seconds and see how it feels. Even just loading all of the rooms on the main node takes several seconds albeit the CPU usage doesn't show that.
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PoltoS
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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As I remember (please correct me) OH is polling Z-Way and not vice versa. So this might be some other issue. Or Z-Way is configured to poll some HTTP devices. Please check your configuration.

The fix bug we discuss here is related to Z-Way doing HTTP request to other services.
JohannesF
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

Post by JohannesF »

Just a quick update. Since the bug fix I didn't have a single "exited-issue".
My system is really runny stable since.
Thanks again!
lanbrown
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Re: Z-way-server occasionally goes down

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I've had the issue. With all that particular instance is doing is a go between between the Z-Way nodes with Z-Wave devices and Home Assistant, I believe the issue has to be with the remote z-way app. Hopefully the updated version that uses WebSockets resolves the issue. It is much better than it was before though. So the changes made really helped.
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