[Backgroundrb-devel] Backgroundrb weirdness with multiple mongrels

[Jacob Atzen]

Hi list,

I'm having some issues getting backgroundrb to play nice with more than
one mongrel. When I run my app on a single mongrel instance it works
fine.

I have two different problems show up in my backgrounrb_server.log. The
top of the backtrace is shown here:

20070130-12:03:03 (92473) failed to find slave socket - (RuntimeError)
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/slave-1.2.0/lib/slave.rb:435:in `initialize'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:210:in `new'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:210:in `new_worker'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:36:in `dispatch'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `initialize'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `new'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `dispatch'
20070130-12:03:03 (92473) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:199:in `new_worker'

And:

20070130-12:00:05 (92080) connection closed - (DRb::DRbConnError)
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:570:in `load'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:632:in `recv_reply'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:921:in `recv_reply'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1195:in `send_message'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1086:in `method_missing'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1170:in `open'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1085:in `method_missing'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1103:in `with_friend'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1084:in `method_missing'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/drb/drb.rb:1072:in `respond_to?'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/slave-1.2.0/lib/slave.rb:454:in `initialize'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:210:in `new'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:210:in `new_worker'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:36:in `dispatch'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `initialize'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `new'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/thread_pool.rb:22:in `dispatch'
20070130-12:00:05 (92080) /usr/local/www/rails-apps/myapp/releases/20070130101502/vendor/plugins/backgroundrb/server/lib/backgroundrb/middleman.rb:199:in `new_worker'

As can be seen it seems to stem from a call to new_worker. Though the
issue also seems to prop up when requesting an existing worker.

Any ideas on where I should start to look?

-- 
Thanks,
- Jacob Atzen