Mainly small fixes, improvements, and workarounds for fork() issues
with pseudo-random number generators shipped with Ruby (Kernel#rand,
OpenSSL::Random (used by SecureRandom and also by Rails).
If there are any other fixes/improvements that could be useful let us
know. I think this is nearing the end of the line for the 3.x series
which will then go into maintenance mode. I''m looking at 4.x being the
crazy series that allows us to run thousands of worker _processes_ and
scale to mythical 4096 core systems :)
The PRNG issues are documented in depth here (and links to Ruby Redmine):
http://bogomips.org/unicorn.git/commit?id=1107ede7
http://bogomips.org/unicorn.git/commit?id=b3241621
If you''re too lazy to upgrade, you can just do this in your after_fork
hooks:
after_fork do |server,worker|
tmp = srand
OpenSSL::Random.seed(tmp.to_s) if defined?(OpenSSL::Random)
end
There are also small log reopening (SIGUSR1) improvements:
* relative paths may also be reopened, there''s a small chance this
will break with a handful of setups, but unlikely. This should
make configuration easier especially since the "working_directory"
configurator directive exists. Brought up by Matthew Kocher:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general/900
* workers will just die (and restart) if log reopening fails for
any reason (including user error). This is to workaround the issue
reported by Emmanuel Gomez:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general/906
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Eric Wong
