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Numerous threads spawned -unicorn

steverob opened this issue · comments

Im using Keen in our app in async mode. Followed the unicorn setup here - https://gist.github.com/jonkgrimes/5103321 for EventMachine.

Lately I have been seeing tons of opened database connections. Multiple postgres connections attributed to each Unicorn workers.

I kept digging and saw that the unicorn workers had numerous threads spawned under them.

screenshot from 2016-04-08 15 54 49

I then used techniques given here to find out where these threads were executing and here is what I got for one of the worker's threads -


[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `pop'
[17176] /u/apps/eventstream_production/shared/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/eventmachine-1.0.8/lib/eventmachine.rb:1057:in `block in spawn_threadpool'
[17176] ---
[17176] -------------------

Clearly its in EventMachine. We dont use EM for anything else other than Keen in our app.
Is this normal? Could this be leading to the leaking db connections?