SySV Errors after a while.

[lifo101]

SySV Errors after a while.

[phuze]

I stayed away from workers due to limitations with the IPC layer. A few things the author has noted:

If you spend too much time polling in each iteration the rest of your daemon will suffer. So, try not spend more than 1 second at a time in the execute loop.

One thing to be aware of. The daemon is not really meant for high-speed processing. The 'calling' mechanism in the back-end that communicates with sub-processes can sometimes break if you make too many calls too quickly. A few messages per second is fine, but hundreds per second will start to become unstable, most likely. I've never tested how much I could do within workers.

Looking at your logs, I think you're encountering those limitations:

DEBUG: Daemon::wait: Loop took too long.

I'm not sure if it'll help your situation, but have you considered using tasks instead of workers? Tasks are the same thing, only they don't communicate back to the main daemon process thereby avoiding the IPC bottleneck entirely. They are fire and forget.

In my use case, I've got 5 daemons running, each one monitors various azure queues and fires off various processes (tasks) when there are messages in a queue. Each task runs as its own process in linux -- they exit gracefully and I have been hammering these daemons pretty hard. I can process hundreds of messages per second using this approach and its been super stable.

Just gotta make sure you keep the execute() logic light and have your tasks do all the heavy lifting. I process multiple message per task before letting that task exit -- just so im not spawning a process for every single message a queue.

Example:

/**
* Main application logic.
* Called every loop cycle
**/
protected function execute()
{

    # broadcast a heartbeat every 5 minutes (based on run interval)
    if ($this->getLoopIterations() % 60 == 0) {
        $this->log("service status: okay");
    }

    try {
        # get order queue counts
        $createCount = AzureQ::queueCount('shopify-create');
        $ordersCount = AzureQ::queueCount('shopify-orders');
    } catch (Exception $e) {
        return;
    }

    # kick off appropriate processor
    if ($createCount > 0) { $this->task('OrderCreate'); }
    if ($ordersCount > 0) { $this->task('OrderProcess'); }

}

use Lifo\Daemon\Task\AbstractTask;

class OrderProcess extends AbstractTask
{

# easy access to the daemon logging routines
# so we don't have to use Daemon::getInstance()->log
use \Lifo\Daemon\LogTrait;

public function run()
{
    #do stuff
}

[lifo101]

nothing i can do with this right now.