On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 8:17:09 AM UTC+2, Qasim Zaidi wrote:

> Ever since we switched to 0.10.x in production, we are seeing instances 
> where the server gets into a loop and CPU usage shoots to 100%. Here is 
> what I have been able to understand so far about this situation.
>
> - After some time, we run out of descriptors, i.e. the nofile limit is 
> reached. This triggers the 100% CPU loop, and node becomes unresponsive.
>

What node version is this? This was supposedly fixed in libuv-v0.10.6. To 
benefit from the fix you need to use node-v0.10.7 or later.

Something (maybe traffic spike) triggers a socket leak in the process, and 
> we start with getting a lot of descriptors in close_wait state.  This is 
> very similar to what is reported at 
> https://github.com/einaros/ws/issues/180 (Connections stay in CLOSE_WAIT 
> with Node 0.10.x). 


Do the CLOSE_WAIT connections show up before or after node hits 100% CPU 
usage? A socket in CLOSE_WAIT state means that the connection was 
completely wound down, but the file descriptor hasn't been closed. If a 
small fraction of sockets is in CLOSE_WAIT state there's nothing to worry 
about, node just hasn't gotten around to closing the file descriptor yet. 
It is also "expected" when the 100%-cpu issue kicks in since node basically 
hangs and won't be closing any FDs at all.

- Bert

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