[Backgroundrb-devel] Intermittent "can't convert Float into Hash" and results.rb

[skaar]

It might be that we have to introduce a mutex in the results worker
where this happens. I'll try to get this reproduced sometime this
weekend. 

/skaar


* Mason Hale (masonhale at gmail.com) [070109 14:42]:
>    I'm getting a similar error, here a partial stack trace:
> 
>    20070108-20:17:45 (27597) can't convert Symbol into Hash - (TypeError)
>    20070108-20:17:45 (27597)
>    /opt/lss/demo/0.4-06/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/results.rb:40:in
>    `merge!'
>    20070108-20:17:45 (27597)
>    /opt/lss/demo/0.4-06/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/results.rb:40:in
>    `[]='
> 
>    The process will run fine for hours or days, but then will stop with this
>    error. When it happens it takes now the entire BackgrounDRb server. (I'm
>    addding some begin/rescue blocks to hopefully prevent that.)
> 
>    I've got Ruby 1.8.5p12 compiled with gcc 3.4.6 on RedHat Linux.
> 
>    This also seems to occur with more than one process (running the same
>    worker class) at the same tim
> 
>    Any ideas?
> 
>    Mason
> 
>    On 1/7/07, Robert Bjarnason <[1]robert.bjarnason at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>      Hi Bob,
> 
>      Thanks for the pointer, I agree this is probably not a directly
>      backgroundrb related problem.  I built Ruby 1.8.4 on a Debian Linux box
>      using gcc version 3.3.5.
> 
>      Warm regards,
>      Robert Bjarnason
> 
>      Bob Hutchison wrote:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > This sounds a bit like the trouble in OS X where you'd get a Fixednum
>      > to String error. This was caused by a bug in the gcc 4.0 compiler. The
>      > solution on OS X is to re-compile Ruby with -O1 optimisation level or
>      > switch to the gcc 3.x compiler). As I understand it, with linux you
>      > have the additional option of installing a newer version of gcc 4.x
>      > and recompiling (I'm using 4.0.2 on one of my linux boxes and have
>      > never seen the problem).
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > Bob
>      >
>      > On 4-Jan-07, at 11:44 AM, Robert Bjarnason wrote:
>      >
>      >> Hi,
>      >>
>      >> I'm using backgroundrb 0.2.1 in a production environment and for most
>      >> parts I'm very happy.  We are using it to do some heavy video editing
>      on
>      >> the server side and it works great except that under, what seems
>      heavy
>      >> load the below problem happens intermittently.
>      >>
>      >> The problem has only happened 5 times out of over 500 runs by our
>      >> backgroundrb worker.
>      >>
>      >> This is the code in our worker:
>      >>               logger.debug("info : progress: #{progress}")
>      >>               progress_percent = progress * 100
>      >>               if progress_percent >= 100
>      >>                 results[:progress] = 99.99
>      >>               else
>      >>                 results[:progress] = progress_percent <-- Line of the
>      >> crash
>      >>               end
>      >>
>      >> Here is the error:
>      >> can't convert Float into Hash
>      >>
>      >> And the beginning of the stack trace:
>      >>
>      /.../ContentStore/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/results.rb:40
>      >>
>      >> :in
>      >>
>      `merge!'/.../ContentStore/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/results.rb:40
>      >>
>      >> :in `[]='/.../ContentStore/lib/workers/content_worker.rb:40
>      >> :in
>      `execute_mp4box'/.../ContentStore/lib/workers/content_worker.rb:22:
>      >> in `execute_mp4box'/.../ContentStore/lib/workers/content_worker.rb:21
>      >> :in
>      `execute_mp4box'/.../ContentStore/lib/workers/content_worker.rb:181
>      >> :in
>      >>
>      `do_work'/.../ContentStore/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/worker.rb:55:
>      >>
>      >> ...
>      >>
>      >> The problem seems to happen only under heavy load where more than 1
>      >> worker process is active at the same time.
>      >>
>      >> Any ideas or leads?
>      >>
>      >> Thanks,
>      >> Robert Bjarnason
>      >>
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