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2010-03-10Detect when queuedaemon/xmppdaemon parent processes die and kill the child ↵Brion Vibber
processes. Keeps stray daemon subprocesses from floating around when we kill the parents via a signal! Accomplished by opening a bidirectional pipe in the parent process; the children close out the writer end and keep the reader in their open sockets list. When the parent dies, the children see that the socket's been closed out and can perform an orderly shutdown.
2010-02-16Stomp queue restructuring for mass scalability:Brion Vibber
- Multiplexing queues into groups and for multiple sites. - Sharing vs breakout configurable per site and per queue via $config['queue']['breakout'] - Detect how many times a message is redelivered, discard if it's killed too many daemons - count configurable with $config['queue']['max_retries'] - can dump the items to files in $config['queue']['dead_letter_dir'] Queue daemon memory & resource leak fixes: - avoid unnecessary reconnections to memcached server (switch persistent connections back in on second initialization, assuming it's child process) - monkey-patch for leaky .ini loads in DB_DataObject::databaseStructure() - was leaking 200k per active switch - applied leak fixes to Status_network as well, using intermediate base Safe_DataObject for both it and Memcache_DataObject Misc queue fixes: - correct handling of child processes exiting due to signal termination instead of regular exit - shutdown instead of infinite respawn loop if we're already past the soft memory limit at startup - Added --all option for xmppdaemon... still opens one xmpp connection per site that has xmpp active Cache updates: - add Cache::increment() method with native support for memcached atomic increment
2010-02-09Configurable delay between queuedaemon.php spawns/respawns to help stagger ↵Brion Vibber
out startups and subscriptions. Defaults to 1 second. $config['queue']['spawndelay'] = 1;
2010-01-26Control channel for queue daemons to request graceful shutdown, restart, or ↵Brion Vibber
update to listen to a newly added or reconfigured site. queuectl.php --update -s<site> queuectl.php --stop queuectl.php --restart Default control channel is /topic/statusnet-control. For external utilities to send a site update ping direct to the queue server, connect via Stomp and send a message formatted thus: update:<nickname> (Nickname here, *not* server hostname! The rest of the queues will be updated to use nicknames later.) Note that all currently-connected queue daemons will get these notifications, including both queuedaemon.php and xmppdaemon.php. (XMPP will ignore site update requests for sites that it's not handling.) Limitations: * only implemented for stomp queue manager so far * --update may not yet handle a changed server name properly * --restart won't reload PHP code files that were already loaded at startup. Still need to stop and restart the daemons from 'outside' when updating code base.
2010-01-21XMPP queued output & initial retooling of DB queue manager to support ↵Brion Vibber
non-Notice objects. Queue handlers for XMPP individual & firehose output now send their XML stanzas to another output queue instead of connecting directly to the chat server. This lets us have as many general processing threads as we need, while all actual XMPP input and output go through a single daemon with a single connection open. This avoids problems with multiple connected resources: * multiple windows shown in some chat clients (psi, gajim, kopete) * extra load on server * incoming message delivery forwarding issues Database changes: * queue_item drops 'notice_id' in favor of a 'frame' blob. This is based on Craig Andrews' work branch to generalize queues to take any object, but conservatively leaving out the serialization for now. Table updater (preserves any existing queued items) in db/rc3to09.sql Code changes to watch out for: * Queue handlers should now define a handle() method instead of handle_notice() * QueueDaemon and XmppDaemon now share common i/o (IoMaster) and respawning thread management (RespawningDaemon) infrastructure. * The polling XmppConfirmManager has been dropped, as the message is queued directly when saving IM settings. * Enable $config['queue']['debug_memory'] to output current memory usage at each run through the event loop to watch for memory leaks To do: * Adapt XMPP i/o to component connection mode for multi-site support. * XMPP input can also be broken out to a queue, which would allow the actual notice save etc to be handled by general queue threads. * Make sure there are no problems with simply pushing serialized Notice objects to queues. * Find a way to improve interactive performance of the database-backed queue handler; polling is pretty painful to XMPP. * Possibly redo the way QueueHandlers are injected into a QueueManager. The grouping used to split out the XMPP output queue is a bit awkward.