- Multiplexing queues into groups and for multiple sites.
- Sharing vs breakout configurable per site and per queue via $config['queue']['breakout']
- Detect how many times a message is redelivered, discard if it's killed too many daemons
- count configurable with $config['queue']['max_retries']
- can dump the items to files in $config['queue']['dead_letter_dir']
Queue daemon memory & resource leak fixes:
- avoid unnecessary reconnections to memcached server (switch persistent connections back in on second initialization, assuming it's child process)
- monkey-patch for leaky .ini loads in DB_DataObject::databaseStructure() - was leaking 200k per active switch
- applied leak fixes to Status_network as well, using intermediate base Safe_DataObject for both it and Memcache_DataObject
Misc queue fixes:
- correct handling of child processes exiting due to signal termination instead of regular exit
- shutdown instead of infinite respawn loop if we're already past the soft memory limit at startup
- Added --all option for xmppdaemon... still opens one xmpp connection per site that has xmpp active
Cache updates:
- add Cache::increment() method with native support for memcached atomic increment
Moved much of the writing that happens when posting a notice to a new
queuehandler, distribqueuehandler. This updates tags, groups, replies
and inboxes at queue time (or at Web time, if queues are disabled).
To make this work well, I had to break up the monolithic
Notice::blowCaches() and make cache blowing happen closer to where
data is updated.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 5257626c62750ac4ac1db0ce2b71410c5711cfa3
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 14:56:41 2010 -0500
slightly better handling of blowing tag memory cache
commit 8a22a3cdf6ec28685da129a0313e7b2a0837c9ef
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 01:42:56 2010 -0500
change 'distribute' to 'distrib' so not too long for dbqueue
commit 7a063315b0f7fad27cb6fbd2bdd74e253af83e4f
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 01:39:15 2010 -0500
change handle_notice() to handle() in distributqueuehandler
commit 1a39ccd28b9994137d7bfd21bb4f230546938e77
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 16:05:25 2010 -0500
error with queuemanager
commit e6b3bb93f305cfd2de71a6340b8aa6fb890049b7
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 01:11:34 2010 -0500
Blow memcache at different point rather than one big function for Notice class
commit 94d557cdc016187d1d0647ae1794cd94d6fb8ac8
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Mon Jan 25 00:48:44 2010 -0500
Blow memcache at different point rather than one big function for Notice class
commit 1c781dd08c88a35dafc5c01230b4872fd6b95182
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Wed Jan 20 08:54:18 2010 -0500
move broadcasting and distributing to new queuehandler
commit da3e46d26b84e4f028f34a13fd2ee373e4c1b954
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date: Wed Jan 20 08:53:12 2010 -0500
Move distribution of notices to new distribute queue handler
I made a bad merge on Jan 10th from master to 0.9.x. This lost a number
of memcache enhancements made on the 0.9.x branch. I've been able to
re-do the manual merge, and this represents the changes. Most of them
are related to caching on insert.
Key changes:
* Initialization code moved from common.php to StatusNet class;
can now switch configurations during runtime.
* As a consequence, configuration files must now be idempotent...
Be careful with constant, function or class definitions.
* Control structure for daemons/QueueManager/QueueHandler has been refactored;
the run loop is now managed by IoMaster run via scripts/queuedaemon.php
IoManager subclasses are woken to handle socket input or polling, and may
cover multiple sites.
* Plugins can implement notice queue handlers more easily by registering a
QueueHandler class; no more need to add a daemon.
The new QueueDaemon runs from scripts/queuedaemon.php:
* This replaces most of the old *handler.php scripts; they've been refactored
to the bare handler classes.
* Spawns multiple child processes to spread load; defaults to CPU count on
Linux and Mac OS X systems, or override with --threads=N
* When multithreaded, child processes are automatically respawned on failure.
* Threads gracefully shut down and restart when passing a soft memory limit
(defaults to 90% of memory_limit), limiting damage from memory leaks.
* Support for UDP-based monitoring: http://www.gitorious.org/snqmon
Rough control flow diagram:
QueueDaemon -> IoMaster -> IoManager
QueueManager [listen or poll] -> QueueHandler
XmppManager [ping & keepalive]
XmppConfirmManager [poll updates]
Todo:
* Respawning features not currently available running single-threaded.
* When running single-site, configuration changes aren't picked up.
* New sites or config changes affecting queue subscriptions are not yet
handled without a daemon restart.
* SNMP monitoring output to integrate with general tools (nagios, ganglia)
* Convert XMPP confirmation message sends to use stomp queue instead of polling
* Convert xmppdaemon.php to IoManager?
* Convert Twitter status, friends import polling daemons to IoManager
* Clean up some error reporting and failure modes
* May need to adjust queue priorities for best perf in backlog/flood cases
Detailed code history available in my daemon-work branch:
http://www.gitorious.org/~brion/statusnet/brion-fixes/commits/daemon-work
Upgrade notes:
* Index names have changed from hardcoded 'Identica_people' and 'Identica_notices' to use the database name and actual table names. Must reindex.
New events:
* GetSearchEngine to override default search engine class selection from plugins
New scripts:
* gen_config.php generates a sphinx.conf from database configuration (with theoretical support for status_network table, but it doesn't seem to be cleanly queriable right now without knowing the db setup info for that. Needs generalized support.)
* Replaced old sphinx-indexer.sh and sphinx-cron.sh with index_update.php
Other fixes:
* sphinx.conf.sample better matches our live config, skipping unused stopword list and using a more realistic indexer memory limit
Further notes:
* Probably doesn't work right with PostgreSQL yet; Sphinx can pull from PG but the extraction queries currently look like they use some MySQL-specific functions.
