Issues with ssh-agent connecting to a large number of hosts at once

Kevin Steves stevesk at pobox.com
Thu Apr 23 08:58:04 EST 2009


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:04:34AM -0600, Bob Belnap wrote:
: read(160, 0xbf8f300a, 1024)             = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily
: unavailable)

looks like select() tells us a non-blocking fd is ready for reading
but there is nothing to read and we loop forever on EAGAIN.

is it an ssh(1) that is connecting to the agent?

there is an ssh-agent -d option, you could add some debug()
to troubleshoot.


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