I''m getting "IOError: closed stream" from inside Unicorn occasionally and I don''t know what to make of it. The stack trace looks like this: unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `kgio_read'' unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `read_all'' unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:60:in `read'' unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/tee_input.rb:84:in `read'' config/initializers/rack_request.rb:19:in `POST'' rack (1.4.5) lib/rack/request.rb:221:in `params'' Any suggestions what this might indicate? Is this what I should legitimately expect to see if the browser closes the connection abruptly? It''s happening only for POSTs, and a small percentage of them, but I can''t find any further pattern - a variety of content, usually quite small content-lengths. Currently we''re running nginx in front of unicorn via a unix socket. In this state the errors occur at an almost-negligible rate. I experimented yesterday with moving instead to nginx in front of varnish, on a separate machine, with varnish then talking to unicorn via a TCP socket. In that configuration the errors increased dramatically, although the majority of requests still succeeded. As you can see we''re running unicorn 4.5 and rack 1.4.5 - except that I''m monkey-patching Rack::Request to backport the 1.5 POST method, which transforms an earlier nil error in to this one. (On Ruby 2.0.0, on an Ubuntu-precise box on AWS.) Any relevant info or suggestions would be appreciated. Apologies if this shows up as a double-post--my first attempt seems to have been rejected because I didn''t turn on plain text mode. Thanks, David _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
David Judd <david@academia.edu> wrote:> I''m getting "IOError: closed stream" from inside Unicorn occasionally > and I don''t know what to make of it. The stack trace looks like this: > > unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `kgio_read'' unicorn > (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `read_all'' unicorn (4.5.0) > lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:60:in `read'' unicorn (4.5.0) > lib/unicorn/tee_input.rb:84:in `read'' > config/initializers/rack_request.rb:19:in `POST'' rack (1.4.5) > lib/rack/request.rb:221:in `params'' > > Any suggestions what this might indicate? Is this what I should > legitimately expect to see if the browser closes the connection > abruptly?Not a client closing the connection, that would be EOFError, Errno::ECONNRESET or another Errno::... IOError means something in the unicorn process closed the connection already, which should not happen there. Do you have anything in your Rack app which does background processing of rack.input after the response is written? That would be the most likely explanation...> It''s happening only for POSTs, and a small percentage of them, but I > can''t find any further pattern - a variety of content, usually quite > small content-lengths. > > Currently we''re running nginx in front of unicorn via a unix socket. > In this state the errors occur at an almost-negligible rate. I > experimented yesterday with moving instead to nginx in front of > varnish, on a separate machine, with varnish then talking to unicorn > via a TCP socket. In that configuration the errors increased > dramatically, although the majority of requests still succeeded.If varnish is used, your nginx -> varnish -> unicorn is what I would recommend (not that I have much experience with varnish, but I when I last looked at them, nginx was better at handling slow/idle connections). That said, I''m not sure what could cause the increase in errors... Is varnish attempting to pre-connect? Can you reproduce this error on a minimal Rack app from a client you control?> As you can see we''re running unicorn 4.5 and rack 1.4.5 - except that > I''m monkey-patching Rack::Request to backport the 1.5 POST method, > which transforms an earlier nil error in to this one. (On Ruby 2.0.0, > on an Ubuntu-precise box on AWS.)For the mimimal rack test app, try just an unpatched Rack, there could be a subtle compatibility problems from the monkey patch. The basic idea is to eliminate variables and strange/uncommon things to pinpoint the problem.> Any relevant info or suggestions would be appreciated.Since you''re on 4.5, it would not be via rack.hijack ... I''m not ruling out a bug in unicorn, but I don''t think we''ve heard of this problem before. The code for handling rack.input hasn''t been changed much, either. I beat the crap out of it, but usually for PUT requests (but not using POST in Rack::Request).> Apologies if this shows up as a double-post--my first attempt seems to > have been rejected because I didn''t turn on plain text mode.Only saw this one. You can check on gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general or http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-unicorn Mailman should be converting HTML to plain-text, but maybe it fails sometimes... I''d rather deal with an occasional double post than every message being 2-3 times bigger due to HTML. _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
> > Do you have anything in your Rack app which does background processing > of rack.input after the response is written? > That would be the most likely explanation...Not that I''m aware of, and I can''t find any references to rack.input in our codebase aside from the monkeypatch.> If varnish is used, your nginx -> varnish -> unicorn is what I would > recommend (not that I have much experience with varnish, but I when I > last looked at them, nginx was better at handling slow/idle > connections). > That said, I''m not sure what could cause the increase in errors... > Is varnish attempting to pre-connect?I realized when I was seeing the errors en masse, I was actually just running varnish->unicorn, no nginx--I hadn''t finished the switch to nginx->varnish->unicorn which we had planned.> Can you reproduce this error on a minimal Rack app from a client > you control?I''ll give it a shot when I have some time, but suspect it will be tough. Even with the ''bad'' setup, it''s an infrequent error with production traffic that''s pretty high-volume. I''ll also (actually, probably sooner) actually try the configuration of nginx->varnish->unicorn. If that works, or mostly works, I may not be able to justify investing the time to dig into this further.> For the mimimal rack test app, try just an unpatched Rack, > there could be a subtle compatibility problems from the monkey patch. > The basic idea is to eliminate variables and strange/uncommon things to > pinpoint the problem.With an unpatched Rack, I get a NoMethodError due to Rack::Request#POST returning nil. I think there''s a one-to-one correspondence between when one error would occur and when the other would, but I can''t confirm that - one started appearing as soon as the other disappeared, at roughly the same rate. The seemingly relevant commit (although the justification for the change doesn''t seem related): https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/b0593078ce792a380779528a6a135c066aa03515 Thanks, David On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, David Judd <david@academia.edu> wrote:> I''m getting "IOError: closed stream" from inside Unicorn occasionally > and I don''t know what to make of it. The stack trace looks like this: > > unicorn (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `kgio_read'' unicorn > (4.5.0) lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:129:in `read_all'' unicorn (4.5.0) > lib/unicorn/stream_input.rb:60:in `read'' unicorn (4.5.0) > lib/unicorn/tee_input.rb:84:in `read'' > config/initializers/rack_request.rb:19:in `POST'' rack (1.4.5) > lib/rack/request.rb:221:in `params'' > > Any suggestions what this might indicate? Is this what I should > legitimately expect to see if the browser closes the connection > abruptly? > > It''s happening only for POSTs, and a small percentage of them, but I > can''t find any further pattern - a variety of content, usually quite > small content-lengths. > > Currently we''re running nginx in front of unicorn via a unix socket. > In this state the errors occur at an almost-negligible rate. I > experimented yesterday with moving instead to nginx in front of > varnish, on a separate machine, with varnish then talking to unicorn > via a TCP socket. In that configuration the errors increased > dramatically, although the majority of requests still succeeded. > > As you can see we''re running unicorn 4.5 and rack 1.4.5 - except that > I''m monkey-patching Rack::Request to backport the 1.5 POST method, > which transforms an earlier nil error in to this one. (On Ruby 2.0.0, > on an Ubuntu-precise box on AWS.) > > Any relevant info or suggestions would be appreciated. > > Apologies if this shows up as a double-post--my first attempt seems to > have been rejected because I didn''t turn on plain text mode. > > Thanks, > David_______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying