I've got a problem with timing out a C RFC call. Essentially, I've got code that initializes and executes an RFC to a remote server that, depending on the server, could take a significant amount of time to return a response.
To minimize end-user impact, I wrapped the call with a timeout of 20 seconds. When I executed a test, it didn't appear to do anything as the process still took 120-130 seconds to complete. After digging around a bit, I discovered this writeup about timeout and system calls (http://adamblog.heroku.com/past/2008/6/17/battling_wedged_mongrels_with_a/). I immediately installed SystemTimer (http://ph7spot.com/articles/system_timer) and tried again: begin require 'system_timer' MyTimer = SystemTimer rescue LoadError require 'timeout' MyTimer = Timeout end def invoke(rfc) MyTimer.timeout_after(20.seconds) do rfc.invoke end rescue Timeout::Error raise Timeout::Error, "RFC Call timed out after 20 seconds" end This time, it executed and waited the full length of time (120-130 seconds). 20 seconds AFTER it completed, I then saw the "RFC Call timed out after 20 seconds" error written to the logs. After some more investigation, I read about Terminator and the use of new threads to kill stuck/long-running threads. I installed it and updated my above block of code to use the Terminator syntax. This time when I ran it, a view of the process list showed that the new thread got created with a timer of 20 seconds. 20 seconds into processing, the thread showed as <Defunct> and nothing happened to the existing thread... that is until it completed. Once the process finished running, the mongrel log shows that it was issued a restart command and restarted. What am I doing wrong? There must be a way to timeout a system level C API/RFC call... Running Ruby 1.8.6 p114 on CentOS 5.1 64-bit with mongrel 1.1.5 Thanks in advance for anyone who can help! -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
