From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: "Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" <godfat@godfat.org>
Cc: yahns-public@yhbt.net, wildjcrt@gmail.com
Subject: Re: What would happen if a worker thread died?
Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 17:03:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150508170311.GA1260@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2_N1umJO12XH9r+JHnA6r=z=Mwp_PqOrdnW65oqW2K2-iAoQ@mail.gmail.com>
"Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)" <godfat@godfat.org> wrote:
> During the experiments, we found that whenever a worker
> thread died due to LoadError raised from the application,
> which is not a StandardError therefore was not rescued at all,
> crashing the worker thread (assumed, not verified).
Ugh, I guess since it happened in a thread, the error message got
swallowed unless you were running in $DEBUG.
Loading code after the server is ready and serving requests is a bad
idea. It leads to really nasty thread-safety problems as well as
invalidating the method/constant caches.
> When this happened, the client just hanged forever with yahns.
> Is there something we can do about this? Would yahns respawn
> a new worker thread? Can we close the socket when this happen?
It's unfortunately difficult to detect thread death from ruby (no
SIGCHLD handler unlike for processes) besides polling Thread#join
We had this issue in ruby-core a few years back, but apparently
it was forgotten/ignored by matz. Care to chime in?
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6647
> I am aware that yahns is *extremely sensitive to fatal bugs in the
> applications it hosts*, so I am just curious.
>
> For reference, Puma would immediately close the socket without
> sending anything, and Unicorn would log the error backtrace and
> kill the worker (If I read it correctly).
>
> In this case, Unicorn helped me figure out what's happened.
yahns can probably rescue Exception (or Object(!) like puma)
and then log + abort the entire process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-08 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-08 12:20 What would happen if a worker thread died? Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
2015-05-08 17:03 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2015-05-08 17:36 ` Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
2015-05-09 1:03 ` Eric Wong
2015-05-09 7:26 ` Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
2015-05-09 8:47 ` Eric Wong
2015-05-09 9:03 ` [PATCH] worker threads log LoadError and SyntaxError, too Eric Wong
2015-05-09 9:06 ` What would happen if a worker thread died? Lin Jen-Shin (godfat)
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