Re: Out of band stuff?

[Eric Wong <normalperson-rMlxZR9MS24@public.gmane.org>]

Damian Janowski <jano-eWlILCNyKRBBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm needing to perform a couple of tasks outside of the request cycle.
> For instance, I want to ping a web service every X minutes so that I
> can maintain a persistent connection to it and have better response
> times for some requests that I have to do *inside* the request cycle.
> 
> What would be the reasonable way of doing this?

For Raindrops::Watcher, I start a background thread on the first request:

	git clone git://bogomips.org/raindrops.git
	$EDITOR lib/raindrops/watcher.rb

If you look at the `call' method in raindrops/watcher.rb, the important
line is this:

	# @start is a Mutex and @thr is nil in the initialize method.

	@start.synchronize { @thr ||= aggregator_thread(env["rack.logger"]) }

I avoid starting the background thread at initialization because it'll
die on fork (meaning I'd have to recheck it all the time, anyways).

The overhead of Mutex#synchronize and @thr||= assignment is negligible
in most apps.

> I'm thinking the OOB GC is just another example. But the current way
> the OOB GC is written makes one think it's a very specific case and
> not something one should use for other purposes.

Yes, Unicorn::OobGC is very specific to how Unicorn works and the way it
works wouldn't translate well to Rainbows! (as Rainbows! does persistent
connections and unicorn does not).
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