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From: Michael Fischer <mfischer@zendesk.com>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: Issues with PID file renaming
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 17:40:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABHxtY5PuY_CvgdEqRSsKo2V0n9gEL=MgTf6NQYsyz5-qv6XsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131126012036.GA5868@dcvr.yhbt.net>

On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:

>> What I notice is the following: when upgrading with 4.6.2 the file
>> unicorn.pid is copied to unicorn.pid.oldbin and the unicorn.pid file
>> is updated (the (new) master process). After a while the worker pid
>> files are updated and the unicorn.pid.oldbin file disappears, and all
>> is fine.
>
> Ugh.  This is what I feared...  Slow startup time of most Ruby web apps
> doesn't help.

Why doesn't the new master write its pid file immediately upon
forking?  It shouldn't have to wait for everything else to load,
should it?

> How about having the old process create a hard link to .oldbin,
> and having the new one override the pid if Process.ppid == pid file?
> The check is still racy, but that's what pid files are :<

If you decide to implement this, please make it optional.  The current
behavior is correct IMO, and it will work much better if the above
issue is addressed.

--Michael
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-26  1:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-26  1:00 Issues with PID file renaming Jimmy Soho
2013-11-26  1:20 ` Eric Wong
2013-11-26  1:40   ` Michael Fischer [this message]
2013-11-26  2:07     ` Eric Wong
2013-12-10 12:46   ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-10 19:52     ` Eric Wong
2013-12-10 22:44       ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-11 13:54         ` Michael Fischer
2013-12-12 19:15           ` Petteri Räty
2013-12-12 20:51             ` Eric Wong
2013-11-26  1:42 ` Michael Fischer
2013-11-26  4:55   ` Jimmy Soho

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