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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: A barrage of unexplained timeouts
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:49:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130820184902.GA31845@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1377022272.215912135@apps.rackspace.com>

nick@auger.net wrote:
> "Eric Wong" <normalperson@yhbt.net> said:
> > 
> > Do you have any other requests in your logs which could be taking
> > a long time and hogging workers, but not high enough to trigger the
> > unicorn kill timeout.

> I don't *think* so.  Most requests finish <300ms.  We do have some
> more intensive code-paths, but they're administrative and called much
> less frequently.  Most of these pages complete in <3seconds.
> 
> For requests that made it to rails logging, the LAST processed request
> before the worker timed-out all completed very quickly (and no real
> pattern in terms of which page may be triggering it.)

This is really strange.  This was only really bad for a 7s period?
Has it happened again?  Anything else going on with the system at that
time?  Swapping, particularly...

And if you're inside a VM, maybe your neighbors were hogging things.
Large PUT/POST requests which require filesystem I/O are particularly
sensitive to this.

> > Is this with Unix or TCP sockets?  If it's over a LAN, maybe there's
> > still a bad switch/port/cable somewhere (that happens often to me).
> 
> TCP sockets, with nginx and unicorn running on the same box.

OK, that probably rules out a bunch of problems.
Just to be thorough, anything interesting in dmesg or syslogs?

> > With Unix sockets, I don't recall encountering recent problems under
> > Linux.  Which OS are you running?
> 
> Stock RHEL 5, kernel 2.6.18.

RHEL 5.0 or 5.x?  I can't remember /that/ far back to 5.0 (I don't think
I even tried it until 5.2), but don't recall anything being obviously
broken in those...
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-20 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20 14:47 A barrage of unexplained timeouts nick
2013-08-20 16:37 ` Eric Wong
2013-08-20 17:27   ` nick
2013-08-20 17:40     ` Eric Wong
2013-08-20 18:11       ` nick
2013-08-20 18:49         ` Eric Wong [this message]
2013-08-20 20:03           ` nick
2013-08-20 20:42             ` Eric Wong
2013-08-20 21:19               ` nick
2013-08-20 21:32                 ` Eric Wong
2013-08-21 13:33                   ` nick
2013-08-22  2:32                     ` Jimmy Soho
2013-08-22  4:09                       ` Eric Wong
2013-08-22 13:10                         ` nick
2013-08-22 17:05                           ` Eric Wong

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