[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ running at 100% CPU.

Michael Arnoldus chime at mu.dk
Tue Mar 25 14:55:10 GMT 2008


Matthias (and others)

Could this http://www.nabble.com/Unix-spawn-driver-does-not-close-all-file-descriptors-in-child-process-td15796733.html 
  explain some of the weirdness we have seen on OS X?

Michael

On Mar 13, 2008, at 16:36 , Michael Arnoldus wrote:

> Matthias,
>
> Seen on several Mac's here, but the one where we have the problem  
> right now is a Quad-core 2,8 GHz Mac Pro. Also seen on a dual core.  
> 2 GB Mem. Running Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard). Erlang 11B-5, Rabbit  
> 1.2.0.
>
> I actually have a system running with the problem, so if I can help  
> in any way tracing the problem down, let me know.
>
> Yes, Mac OS X has dtrace.
>
> It seems to me like it should be possible to find an possible  
> infinite loop on writev error writing to a socket, either in the  
> erlang code or the rabbit code (but then again - what do I know :-)  
> Let me know if you have any suggestions on where I should start  
> looking.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On Mar 13, 2008, at 16:11 , Matthias Radestock wrote:
>
>> Michael,
>>
>> Michael Arnoldus wrote:
>>> Thank you for your suggestion. There is no strace on Mac OS X, but  
>>> I did find a way to see what the C-program was doing (see below).
>>
>> I gather there's ktrace and/or dtrace.
>>
>>> Most of the threads are just waiting (as expected) but a single  
>>> one seems always to be in some kind of tcp_send_error.
>>
>> That is interesting. Tony has seen similar symptoms on his MacBook  
>> here, but so far we have failed to reproduce the problem anywhere  
>> else.
>>
>> Please let us know as much about your system as possible. Exact OS  
>> version, Erlang/OTP version, RabbitMQ version, number and exact  
>> type of processors, memory configuration, and anything else you can  
>> think of that might be relevant.
>>
>>
>> Matthias.
>

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