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For example, our use case is to copy a large file +</I>><i> to the server over HTTP where a worker process relays the file contents +</I>><i> to long term storage. The worker process is spawn_linked from the HTTP +</I>><i> handler and (for our use case) should die if the handler stops. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> If the client stops the upload (for example by browsing away, or losing +</I>><i> connectivity) we correctly receive an error (see sample Lager trace +</I>><i> below), but what we are seeing is that spawn_linked processes are NOT +</I>><i> being killed. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Is this intended behaviour - I accept it makes sense to reuse the +</I>><i> processes but should this continue to be the case even if the previous +</I>><i> use of the process crashed? If it is intended behaviour I think the +</I>><i> docs should highlight this as we've been leaking processes for some time +</I>><i> now, but I've always seen it as erlang's job to look after related +</I>><i> process trees in the event of error. Our current workaround is to hold +</I>><i> a list of linked processes in process storage and then kill them in the +</I>><i> terminate handler which is ugly in the extreme!! We don't know the PIDS +</I>><i> of the linked processes until it is too late to return State to Cowboy +</I>><i> (i.e. we are already in our handle code)... +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Kind regards +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Adrian +</I>><i> +</I>><i> 16:09:32.347 [info] Trailer upload failed with reason +</I>><i> {case_clause,{error,closed}} +</I>><i> 16:09:32.348 [error] ** Cowboy handler upload_trailer_resource +</I>><i> terminating in handle/2 +</I>><i> for the reason error:{case_clause,{error,closed}} +</I>><i> ** Handler state was {state,undefined,0,undefined,undefined,undefined} +</I>><i> ** Request was +</I>><i> [{socket,#Port<0.11230>},{transport,ranch_tcp},{connection,keepalive},{pid,<0.1987.0>},{method,<<"POST">>},{version,'HTTP/1.1'},{peer,{{84,92,32,116},64136}},{host,<<"54.225.117.108">>},{host_info,undefined},{port,8000},{path,<<"/upload_trailer">>},{path_info,undef +</I>><i> ined},{qs,<<"name=linux-7.4.21.zip&size=54015414">>},{qs_vals,undefined},{bindings,[]},{headers,[{<<"host">>,<<"54.225.117.108:8000">>},{<<"connection">>,<<"keep-alive">>},{<<"content-length">>,<<"54015414">>},{<<"origin">>,<<"<A HREF="http://54.225.117.108:8000">http://54.225.117.108:8000</A>">>},{<<"user-agent">>,<<"M +</I>><i> ozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, +</I>><i> like Gecko) Chrome/28.0.1500.71 +</I>><i> Safari/537.36">>},{<<"content-type">>,<<>>},{<<"accept">>,<<"*/*">>},{<<"referer">>,<<"<A HREF="http://54.225.117.108:8000/">http://54.225.117.108:8000/</A>">>},{<<"accept-encoding">>,<<"gzip,deflate,sdch">>},{<<"acce +</I>><i> pt-language">>,<<"en-US,en;q=0.8">>},{<<"cookie">>,<<"__jwpusr=cbc133d7-1b49-443c-8a13-364660cc93e5; +</I>><i> id3as_manager=f4803c004d71dde3b64394f6e6f44faa54970e93">>}]},{p_headers,[{<<"connection">>,[<<"keep-alive">>]}]},{cookies,undefined},{meta,[]},{body_state,waiting},{multipart,unde +</I>><i> fined},{buffer,<<>>},{resp_compress,true},{resp_state,waiting},{resp_headers,[]},{resp_body,<<>>},{onresponse,undefined}] +</I>><i> ** Stacktrace: +</I>><i> [{i_cowboy,stream_body,0,[{file,"src/i_cowboy.erl"},{line,76}]},{upload_trailer_resource,stream_upload_file,4,[{file,"src/endpoints/upload_trailer_resource.erl"},{line,247}]},{upload_trailer_resource,upload_file,1,[{file,"src/endpoints/upload_trailer_resource.erl"} +</I>><i> ,{line,237}]},{upload_trailer_resource,head_or_post,1,[{file,"src/endpoints/upload_trailer_resource.erl"},{line,202}]},{upload_trailer_resource,sequence,2,[{file,"src/endpoints/upload_trailer_resource.erl"},{line,106}]},{upload_trailer_resource,process_request,1,[{file,"src/endpo +</I>><i> ints/upload_trailer_resource.erl"},{line,212}]},{i_cowboy,do,3,[{file,"src/i_cowboy.erl"},{line,29}]},{cowboy_handler,handler_handle,4,[{file,"src/cowboy_handler.erl"},{line,119}]}] +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Dr Adrian Roe +</I>><i> Director +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Extend mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">Extend at lists.ninenines.eu</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://lists.ninenines.eu:81/listinfo/extend">http://lists.ninenines.eu:81/listinfo/extend</A> +</I>><i> +</I> + +-- +Loïc Hoguin +Erlang Cowboy +Nine Nines +<A HREF="http://ninenines.eu">http://ninenines.eu</A> + +</PRE> + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000154.html">[99s-extend] Cowboy handler linked processes +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000157.html">[99s-extend] Cowboy handler linked processes +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#156">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#156">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#156">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#156">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">More information about the Extend +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |