Re: Strange Thread related errors

[Michael Guterl <mguterl@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> Michael Guterl <mguterl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Our Rails app has started raising exceptions (caught by hoptoad
>> thankfully) and I can only imagine they're related to unicorn.  I only
>> *think* the errors are occurring on the request after we deploy, which
>> upgrades the Unicorn process.  I say this because the errors are
>> coming from many different actions, but I haven't been able to
>> reproduce.
>>
>> After the most recent batch of errors, I upgraded from 0.95.1 to
>> 0.95.3, but we have not deployed again.
>>
>> ThreadError: stopping only thread note: use sleep to stop forever
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:285:in `stop'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:285:in `mon_acquire'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:214:in `mon_enter'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:240:in `synchronize'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:496:in `write'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:326:in `add'
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/logger.rb:374:in `info'
>>
>> /home/deploy/public_html/rm/releases/20100107153636/vendor/plugins/newrelic_rpm/lib/new_relic/agent/agent.rb:46:in
>> `ensure_worker_thread_started'
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> It looks like there's a background thread with the NewRelic plugin...
>
> With "preload_app true", then any threads spawned in the master will die
> in workers.  This is true for Ruby 1.8 green threads by design.  With
> 1.9, it's not even to share native POSIX threads between processes.
>
> So in your after_fork hook, you need to restart threads inside
> each worker.

Thanks for this Eric, much appreciated.  It turns out that New Relic
doesn't officially support Unicorn yet, but I upgraded their plugin
and I have deployed a few times and haven't seen anything since.

Michael Guterl
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