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From: Lawrence Pit <lawrence.pit@gmail.com>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: synchronous restart
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 09:59:15 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C7D9753.9030507@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOiY9Dscz+tr1t1Powa8zPbHonawMzt2oFr_1F@mail.gmail.com>


I totally get what Jamie is asking for, I'm in the same boat. 

I think Jamie was saying he wants to avoid tailing the log while 
deploying new code. The only thing you want to know is 0 for success or 
-1 for failure, only in the case of -1 would you make the effort to have 
your brain waste time parsing log data.

Jamie, I was thinking of modifying my unicorn init.d script somewhat 
similar to this from a suggested nginx init.d script:

http://wiki.nginx.org/Nginx-init-ubuntu

see the quietupgrade() function.

As Unicorn follows the nginx patterns it'll be mostly a copy-paste I think.



Cheers,
Lawrence

> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Jamie Wilkinson <jamie@tramchase.com> wrote:
>   
>> I should clarify... the above is exactly what I'm trying to avoid. i.e. how do you know if your new master failed to boot unless you are actively tailing the logs?
>>     
>
> Well, first, you can specify a .pid file in your Unicorn configuration
> file, then look at it before and a few seconds after the USR2 signal
> to see if the process IDs are different.  Unicorn's pretty smart about
> maintaining that file, and copying the old one out until you kill the
> old process.
>
> Second...  I'm confused as to why you think tailing the logs is
> something to be avoided.  Isn't finding out status what logs are
> *for?*  You could certainly automate the inspection and have some
> process that emails you with an alarm if things don't look right.
> Regardless of how you do it, if you're hoping to get away with
> frequent automated deploys without *some* verification that requests
> are working, you're taking big risks.  Even if your unicorn process
> runs, you could still have problems at the application level throwing
> exceptions at every user.
>
>
>
>
>   

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-31 18:30 synchronous restart Jamie Wilkinson
2010-08-31 19:08 ` Clifton King
2010-08-31 20:08   ` Jamie Wilkinson
2010-08-31 20:15     ` Clifton King
2010-08-31 20:29     ` Stephen Eley
2010-08-31 23:59       ` Lawrence Pit [this message]
2010-08-31 20:58   ` Stephen Eley

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