Hey Michael-
You should definitely now use the ruby logger to do rotation. That
has caused tons of issues for me and others. Use syslog or logrotate
to rotate the logs as the Logger rotator is borken trust me.
As for why you are having opne process stay alive and the others
die. I think what causes that is that all four of your mongrels will
try to rotate the logs. And its a free for all. So the one who does
it last 'wins' and stays alive. Or if it is a mysql timeout issue
then what is probably happening is that only one of your mongrels is
getting 'exercised' . By this I mean the load balancer is only
sending requests to one mongrel because there is not enough traffic
to make it drive all four mongrels. This means that the one mongrel
is getting requests which keep its db connection alive. While the
others are not getting requests so their db connectiosn die off.
I think it's one of these two things. Sop don't use Logger to rotate
logs for starters and see if that fixes it for you.
Cheers
-Ezra
On Jan 2, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Michael Kovacs wrote:
> Hmm... thanks for the suggestion I'll give that a look as well as
> search the archives here.
>
> I do have the logger rotating daily right now:
> config.logger = Logger.new(config.log_path, 'daily')
>
> I think I'll remove that and see if this occurs again. The thing that
> still bothers me though
> is that if one mongrel is broken from this shouldn't they all be? I
> can always count on 1 of 4 mongrels
> working so that every 3rd request is successful :-) In order to
> monitor that I'd have to hit the site twice to
> ensure that I'm not just getting the good mongrel on the first hit.
> Not very fresh.
>
> -Michael
> http://javathehutt.blogspot.com
>
> On Jan 2, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Joey Geiger wrote:
>
>> This may have to do with log rotation. There was a thread about
>> similar issue posted in I believe December. You might want to try
>> searching the mailing list archives.
>>
>> You're probably rotating your logs based on a specific size, which is
>> why it's happening every couple hours, instead of nightly.
>>
>> On 1/2/07, Michael Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've been having problems with the apache 2.2-mod_proxy_balancer-
>>> mongrel
>>> setup.
>>>
>>> My setup is:
>>>
>>> CentOS 4.3
>>> apache 2.2.3 (compiled from source) with mod_proxy_balancer
>>> mysql 4.1
>>> ruby 1.8.4
>>> mongrel 0.3.14 (I know I need to update but I think this problem is
>>> independent of the mongrel version)
>>> mongrel_cluster 0.2.0
>>> rails_machine 0.1.1
>>>
>>> I have apache setup as per Coda's configuration on his blog
>>> posting from
>>> several months back.
>>> http://blog.codahale.com/2006/06/19/time-for-a-grown-up-server-
>>> rails-mongrel-apache-capistrano-and-you/
>>>
>>> I have 4 mongrels in my cluster.
>>>
>>> Things work fine for periods of time but after several hours of
>>> inactivity
>>> (I think 8 hours or so) I experience oddness where only 1 of the 4
>>> mongrels
>>> is properly
>>> responding. I end up getting a "500 internal server error" 3 out
>>> of 4
>>> requests as they round robin from mongrel to mongrel. There is
>>> nothing in
>>> the production
>>> log file nor in the mongrel log. I've reproduced this problem on
>>> my staging
>>> box as well as my production box.
>>>
>>> The last time I reproduced the problem I decided to run "top" and
>>> see what's
>>> going on when I hit the server.
>>> Mongrel does receive every request but mysql is only active on the
>>> 1 request
>>> that works. In the other mongrels it never spikes up in CPU usage.
>>>
>>> Looking at the mysql process list revealed that all of the
>>> processes had
>>> received the "sleep" command but one of the processes is still
>>> working properly. I've played with connection timeouts other than
>>> to set the
>>> timeout in my application's environment
>>> (ActiveRecord::Base.verification_timeout = 14400) as well as the
>>> mysql
>>> interactive_timeout variable but it seems that all the mongrels
>>> should work
>>> or they shouldn't. The fact that 1 out of 4 always works is rather
>>> puzzling
>>> to me.
>>>
>>> Trying a 'killall -USR1 mongrel_rails" to turn debug on simply
>>> killed the 4
>>> threads running mongrel. So now I'm running the cluster in debug
>>> mode and am
>>> going to just let it sit there for several hours until it happens
>>> again and
>>> hopefully get some idea of where the breakdown is happening. I
>>> still think
>>> it has to be a mysql connection timeout but again, the fact that 1
>>> of the 4
>>> always works doesn't lend credence to the timeout theory.
>>>
>>> Has anyone experienced this phenomenon themselves?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any tips/pointers and thanks Zed for all your hard work
>>> with
>>> mongrel.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Michaelhttp://javathehutt.blogspot.com
>>>
>>>
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