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2009-02-13README: finish half-written sentence/paragraph
2009-02-13test_upload: fix rename under 1.8
Ruby 1.9 Tempfile objects can be passed directly to File.rename (instead of the pathname). This doesn't work in 1.8, so always just pass the pathname to File.rename.
2009-02-13Remove tempfile reuse from HttpRequest, upload tests
Tempfile reuse was over-engineered and the problem was not nearly as big a problem as initially thought. Additionally, it could lead to a subtle bug in an applications that link(2)s or rename(2)s the temporary file to a permanent location _without_ closing it after the request is done. Applications that suffer from the problem of directory bloat are still free to modify ENV['TMPDIR'] to influence the creation of Tempfiles.
2009-02-13tests: replace process_based_port with unused_port
unused_port is more reliable as it actually tries to bind a port and retries if it fails. This is also safe across parallel unicorn tests running in different directories.
2009-02-11Update documentation
2009-02-11Add Sinatra example
2009-02-10add_listener logging includes fd= information
This is to make things consistent with the other logging when adding listeners
2009-02-10setup.rb friendliness
2009-02-10Set default process title
This can be overridden in {after,before}_fork hooks of course; but makes things look a little nicer.
2009-02-10Add *.log and pkg/ to .gitignore
2009-02-10Update Manifest
Add a make task for updating it, too.
2009-02-10add hot_config_file config parameter
This allows changing certain variables without restarting the master process or code reload. Currently, only the following variables are supported: @timeout, @nr_workers, @hot_config_file. Any other config changes will/should require re-executing the running binary. This config file is run through eval(); so it really users plenty of rope to hang themselves with. Of course, it requires valid Ruby syntax: ------------------------- 8< ------------------------ @nr_workers = 8 @timeout = 15 @hot_config_file = "/var/tmp/new_hot_config_file" ------------------------- 8< ------------------------ Lowering the timeout will trigger all existing workers to be gracefully stopped and restarted. This file is loaded at startup, and overrides any config settings that may already be loaded.
2009-02-10Allow listen_backlog to be specified in config.
This controls the backlog argument to the listen(2) system call. See your operating system documentation for listen(2) on the specifics of this option. The default is 1024, which is the same as Mongrel. 5 is the default for Ruby TCPServer and UNIXServer; and in some case it can be better where failover to a different machine/cluster is properly configured.
2009-02-10update README
2009-02-10Minor and insignificant cleanups and style changes
* IO.pipe.map { } looks moronic, especially without doing more inside it (like setting set_cloexec). * No need to sleep when we have an unhandled master loop exception (save for paranoia). * client.class == TCPSocket is slightly more expensive than TCPSocket === client * nilify client to avoid GC from trying to close it * Process.kill => kill
2009-02-09Use a short-as-possible path for worker Tempfiles
These files are unlinked immediately anyways, so it's wasteful to give them a long name...
2009-02-09Prevent leakage of private pipes and tempfiles.
Don't rely on FD_CLOEXEC if we don't have to since it may not be completely portable. Just explicitly close things (pipes, tempfiles) we don't want to pass on to our children when forking.
2009-02-09add add_listener method for use in configs
This makes it possible to bind per-process listener ports for easier debugging. One of my biggest gripes about other prefork webservers is that strace-ing the correct process for debugging is difficult. This makes it possible for each worker to bind to a unique port or UNIX socket independent of the other workers.
2009-02-09Delete UNICORN_* environment variables in workers
Workers have no business knowing these things...
2009-02-09daemonization by setting UNICORN_DAEMONIZE env
Daemonization only happens once at initial startup and is less intrusive than traditional daemonize routines: we do not chdir, set umask, or redirect/close STDOUT/STDERR since those are doable via other config options with Unicorn (and the Unicorn "config file" is just Ruby). STDIN has no business being open on a daemon (and can be dangerous to close if using certain buggy third-party libs).
2009-02-09Avoid starting the pipe until we need it
If we're running in the foreground and don't care for process manglement, then there's no need to start a pipe we won't need.
2009-02-09Add optional PID file support
Like nginx, we'll replace the existing "pid_file" with "pid_file.oldbin" when executing a new binary. We'll also refuse to reexecute a new binary if the ".oldbin" pid file already exists and points to a valid PID.
2009-02-09SocketHelper: unlink UNIX sockets if they exist
We may have stale UNIX sockets leftover since we don't clean those up at_exit. So unlink them if we didn't inherit one.
2009-02-09update version and changelog
2009-02-09Reinstate timeouts for killing workers
The timeout mechanism is implemented via shared tempfile handles between the worker and master and checking the ctime of the tempfile from the master. Instead of using sockets or pipes to communicate between the workers and master, this allows the master to avoid being overloaded with wakeups when the workers are running at full crank (or this avoids having extra logic in workers to throttle wakeup notifications to master). The master still wakes up at a leisurely interval of once per second to check, reap, or murder workers that are timed out. [1] http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html
2009-02-09More reliable wakeups in master process
This implements the self-pipe trick[1] to wakeup the master process when signaled. We still wakeup every second to reap workers and eventually check for timed out workers. [1] http://cr.yp.to/docs/selfpipe.html
2009-02-09factor out FD_CLOEXEC into SocketHelper module
We'll be using this flag with a pipe, too.
2009-02-09Refactor and get exec + FD inheritance working
Along with worker process management. This is nginx-style inplace upgrading (I don't know of another web server that does this). Basically we can preserve our opened listen sockets across entire executable upgrades. Signals: USR2 - Sending USR2 to the master unicorn process will cause it to exec a new master and keep the original workers running. This is useful to validate that the new code changes took place are valid and don't immediately die. Once the changes are validated (manually), you may send QUIT to the original master process to have it gracefully exit. HUP - Sending this to the master will make it immediately exec a new binary and cause the old workers to gracefully exit. Use this if you're certain the latest changes to Unicorn (and your app) are ready and don't need validating. Unlike nginx, re-execing a new binary will pick up any and all configuration changes. However listener sockets cannot be removed when exec-ing; only added (for now). I apologize for making such a big change in one commit, but once I got the ability to replace the entire codebase while preserving connections, it was too tempting to continue working. So I wrote a large chunk of this while hitting the unicorn-hello-world app with the following loop: while curl -vSsfN http://0:8080; do date +%N; done _Zero_ requests lost across multiple restarts.
2009-02-09Aggregate test results so they're more readable
Makes it much easier to track down failures if you know something failed in the first place. A failed test early on could be hidden because noise from successful tests drowned it out.
2009-02-09HttpResponse: use unbuffered I/O for writing, too
Avoid needless userspace copies and craziness. We'll need to handle EINTR since writes to sockets means stupid things like this, but it's a small cost...
2009-02-09HttpRequest: restart read(2) on EINTR
Since we handle signals, read(2) syscalls can fail on sockets with EINTR. Restart the call if we hit this.
2009-02-09Refactor HTTP Request processing into HttpRequest
Keeping I/O out of unicorn.rb
2009-02-09Skip EINTR/EAGAIN handling with syswrite
I'll be removing signal handling from worker processes...
2009-02-09Remove test/ files we don't care about, update Manifest
We're not using them and they don't seem useful in any shape or form...
2009-02-09Use a persistent buffer with HttpRequest
This allows us to avoid the overhead of allocating a new buffer each and every time we call sysread (even when just parsing headers for GET requests).
2009-02-09Use read(2) and blocking I/O for clients
Unicorn is only designed for fast internal networks (and loopback); so avoid wasting time with userspace I/O buffering. This should not significantly affect userspace threading on 1.8 in case your application itself is running threads for some (masochistic) reason as long as the clients you're serving directly with Unicorn are fast.
2009-02-09socket: temporary UNIX sockets use ".#{$$}.tmp"
Instead of ".#{$$}" as the suffix. This makes it clearer that it's a temporary name and also so we can use per-process sockets to make debugging easier.
2009-02-09Remove etc and YAML dependencies
We're not currently using them; and I don't see the need to ever use either...
2009-02-09Update TODO with Unicorn goals
Note: since we've stripped everything down to hell, we're Ruby 1.9 compatible at the moment. Also remove references to that new school stuff like JRuby and threads.
2009-02-09GNUmakefile: build http11.so before running tests
Running Rake is too slow for me to do builds on, and I don't have net access to install the Echoe gem at the moment for Ruby 1.9...
2009-02-09Remove hard dependency on Rack
While we'll support anything that exposes a Rack-like interface (a very good one IMHO), we shouldn't have a hard dependency on Rack to simplify testing. While we're at it, I'm not using Daemons anymore, either, since that does too many things behind our back as far as daemonization goes. As a result of not depending on Rubygems, either, I've sped up my "make -j" test ~1.5 seconds
2009-02-09HttpRequest#reset! => HttpRequest#reset
Keep this somewhat consistent with the HttpParser API which also exposes #reset instead of #reset!
2009-02-09Get rid of HeaderOut and simplify HttpResponse
Just stuff what little logic we had for it into HttpResponse since Rack takes care of the rest for us. Put the HTTP_STATUS_HEADERS hash in HttpResponse since we're the only user of it. Also, change HttpResponse.send to HttpResponse.write to avoid overriding the default method.
2009-02-09Support multiple listeners per-process
Use select(2) to multiplex non-blocking accept(2) calls between them. Additionally, aggressively make a bet after accepting clients where we'll try to do a non-blocking accept(2) against the full set of descriptors. This is based on the assumption that if we just accepted connections, we're probably reasonably busy. This should lead to lower latency under high load; but some wasted cycles when requests come in intermitently. By this same logic, we don't really care for the thundering herd problem, either; since it is only noticeable with many (hundreds) of processes when most of them are idle.
2009-02-09Internally supporting binding to UNIX domain sockets
Additionally, provide Socket#unicorn_addr which makes it easy to determine whether a given Socket matches one in the config.
2009-02-09Add *.so to .gitignore
Shared objects on my platform (Linux) do not belong in revision control...
2009-02-09Move portability and override Socket stuff to unicorn/socket
We'll be supporting UNIX domain sockets soon... Get rid of tcphack since it was overriding a default method and just manually call Socket.new, bind, listen ourselves. Additionaly, use SO_REUSEADDR when binding since it is convenient for restarts.
2009-02-09Make HttpRequest object (and temp files) persistent
This will help prevent TMPDIR from becoming bloated when handling thousands of large uploads a day. This is a problem in many UNIX filesystems (including ext3): names of entries never expire even after files are gone and the only way to clear it is to get rid of the directory itself.
2009-02-09Don't set SCRIPT_NAME to "/" and then clear it for Rack
It's pointless...
2009-02-09HttpRequest: avoid repeated hash lookups for HTTP_BODY
read_body can be a long-running loop; so avoid wasting CPU cycles by repeatedly performing a hash lookup to get to a temporary buffer.