pssh, Time out, killed by signal 9

Question

I am using PSSH to run command on other machines to implementing parallel compute using IPyParallel, but I encountered a problem, my command is

pssh -P -h ip.txt -i ipengine --file=~/parallel/test/ipcontroller-engine.json

And after a while, it returned:

[1] 11:54:41 [FAILURE] 192.168.0.112 Timed out, Killed by signal 9
Stderr: 2015-10-12 11:53:41.593 [IPEngineApp] Loading url_file u'/home/fit/parallel/test/ipcontroller-engine.json'
2015-10-12 11:53:41.595 [IPEngineApp] Registering with controller at tcp://192.168.0.115:59413
2015-10-12 11:53:41.628 [IPEngineApp] Starting to monitor the heartbeat signal from the hub every 3010 ms.
2015-10-12 11:53:41.630 [IPEngineApp] Completed registration with id 0
[2] 11:54:41 [FAILURE] 192.168.0.104 Timed out, Killed by signal 9
Stderr: 2015-10-12 11:53:41.647 [IPEngineApp] Loading url_file u'/home/fit/parallel/test/ipcontroller-engine.json'
2015-10-12 11:53:41.648 [IPEngineApp] Registering with controller at tcp://192.168.0.115:59413
2015-10-12 11:53:41.682 [IPEngineApp] Starting to monitor the heartbeat signal from the hub every 3010 ms.
2015-10-12 11:53:41.684 [IPEngineApp] Completed registration with id 1

I think there is something wrong with PSSH, but I don't know how to solve it.

GoingMyWay · Accepted Answer · 2020-08-28T02:19:16.530

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After googling, I found pssh command will only lasted 60 seconds if you not input -t option. So, to solve this, I type the command

pssh -P -h ip.txt -t 100000000 -i ipengine --file=~/parallel/test/ipcontroller-engine.json

And the command will be killed after 100000000 seconds

Update 2020/08/28

Thanks @Nicolas Thery and @Setzer22, instead of setting an arbitrarily large value, you can set -t 0 to disable the timeout functionality.

edited Aug 28 '20 at 02:19

answered Oct 13 '15 at 07:44

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-t 0 to disable – Nicolas Thery Jul 06 '19 at 10:38
@NicolasThery Disable what? – GoingMyWay Jul 08 '19 at 14:27
@GoingMyWay Instead of setting an arbitrarily large value, you can set `-t 0` to disable the timeout functionality. – Setzer22 Aug 27 '20 at 08:19
@Setzer22 Yes, right. After nearly 5 years, do you guys still use pssh? – GoingMyWay Aug 27 '20 at 09:12
It's a handy utility for when you need to run the same command on multiple servers. I don't see why not... Not everything needs to be a Kubernetes cluster. Anyway, this discussion does not belong on SO. I just wanted to point out what did `-t 0` do for future readers. – Setzer22 Aug 27 '20 at 09:17
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@Setzer22 I am just curious about it. Right `pssh` is a good tool to run tasks. That is why I used a few years ago. – GoingMyWay Aug 27 '20 at 10:59

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 23 '18 at 21:59

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Set pssh to have a timeout of 0 to disable the default 60 second timeout. -t 0

pssh -P -t 0 -h host_file <COMMAND>

The top answer suggests a really long timeout, when you can just disable it.

answered Apr 23 '18 at 21:59

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score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 04 '16 at 15:16

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-t timeout
--timeout timeout
Make connections time out after the given number of seconds. With a value of 0, pssh will not timeout any connections.

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answered Mar 04 '16 at 13:57

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Care to give some context to that except? – jeteon Mar 04 '16 at 14:33

pssh, Time out, killed by signal 9

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