Re: Unicorn not working in GitLab 7.3

[Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>]

Onno van der Straaten <onno.van.der.straaten@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Onno van der Straaten wrote:

(Top-posting corrected.  Please do not send HTML email as it ends up
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> > Hi,
> > I am using unicorn in GitLab 7.3. I found that unicorn will not serve
> > javascript files. There is no response. Other files such as css files work
> > fine.
> >
> > I have created an issue at the GitLab site as unicorn is part of his
> > product. For your information
> > https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/7973

This doesn't seems to be a configuration error or a bug in GitLab.
unicorn itself does not serve files, but just returns what Rack tells
it to do.

But since you're getting 60s timeouts, something seems seriously wrong
with that config; but at least you're on Linux so maybe strace can
help...

> This is unicorn 4.6.3 btw. On the other machine it is the same
> version 4.6.3. So maybe this issue is releated to using unicorn on CentOS.

Can you try:

1) configuring only single worker process
2) strace that worker process (strace -p $PID_OF_WORKER)
3) send only one request for a JS file to see what's happening?


In any case, if this GitLab instance is meant for any slow/unreliable
client connections outside your LAN, nginx should be serving static
files.  unicorn is grossly inefficient for that (as explained on our
website):

  http://unicorn.bogomips.org/PHILOSOPHY.html