[openstack-dev] Should RPC consume_in_thread() be more fault tolerant?

Qing He Qing.He at radisys.com
Tue Jun 25 20:07:54 UTC 2013


Agree! Let someone know and keep going unless someone wants to interrupt it or do something. (Does there exist a mechanism already to do this?)

-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Bryant [mailto:rbryant at redhat.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:21 PM
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] Should RPC consume_in_thread() be more fault tolerant?

On 06/25/2013 03:15 PM, Ray Pekowski wrote:
> 
> On Jun 25, 2013 1:09 PM, "Qing He" <Qing.He at radisys.com 
> <mailto:Qing.He at radisys.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Basically, when 'unexpected' happens, someone (e.g., operator) needs
> to know about it and look into it to see if it is something benign or 
> fatal. If it is masked, the system may degrade overtime unnoticed into 
> unusable.
> 
> The approach implemented in the patch is to log the exception and 
> retry at a rate of one per second.  An alternative would be a log and 
> a
> sys.exit() to kill the entire process.  Be aware that the code 
> affected by this patch is rpc created dispatcher like threads.  Let's 
> have a vote on which option is preferrable.

I like it how it's implemented, *not* killing the process ...

--
Russell Bryant

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