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ASF GitHub Bot commented on STORM-513:
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Github user dan-blanchard commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/286#issuecomment-58363290
As the person who filed the issue. Thanks for coming up with a solution so
quickly!
> ShellBolt keeps sending heartbeats even when child process is hung
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> Key: STORM-513
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/STORM-513
> Project: Apache Storm
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: Linux: 2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64 (RHEL 6.5)
> Reporter: Dan Blanchard
> Priority: Blocker
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> If I'm understanding everything correctly with how ShellBolts work, the Java
> ShellBolt executor is the part of the topology that sends heartbeats back to
> Nimbus to let it know that a particular multilang bolt is still alive. The
> problem with this is that if the multilang subprocess/bolt severely hangs
> (i.e., it will not even respond to {{SIGALRM}} and the like), the Java
> ShellBolt does not seem to notice or care. Simply having the tuple get
> replayed when it times out will not suffice either, because the subprocess
> will still be stuck.
> The most obvious way to handle this seem to be to add heartbeating to the
> multilang protocol itself, so that the ShellBolt expects a message of some
> kind every {{timeout}} seconds.
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