At 01:49 PM 10/17/01 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:
>Could webkit monitor the number of live servlet threads and if they die,
>create new threads? Is there a way to stop threads that are taking too
>long? Is there a way already to find out how many threads are healthy?
Most of these ideas could be implemented, but they aren't there
currently. The one thing I don't see how we could do would be to stop
threads that are taking too long. I think there's no way to kill a running
thread in Python, at least not portably. (And even if you could do so, it
would leave the whole process in an unstable state. The docs on the Win32
functions for killing threads warn you to do it only as a last resort as it
makes the whole process unstable; I assume similar warnings apply for Unix.)
The best we could do is monitor the health of threads, and if threads are
dying or getting stuck in infinite loops, we could do an "emergency
shutdown" where we wait some length of time for the currently processing
threads to exit, but if they don't exit in some time period, then we just
try to pickle the sessions to disk and exit the process. Then some
watchdog process would notice that WebKit had stopped and restart it.
Of course, it's even better to just eliminate all bugs in WebKit and in
your servlets so that threads never die or get in infinite loops :-) Are
you actually noticing that threads are getting wedged?
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- Geoff Talvola
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