Mysterious intermittent deadlock in threaded mode on ruby 1.9.1-p378
Reported by Nathan Sobo | November 25th, 2010 @ 12:21 PM
It occurs when the reactor tries grabs a mutex to push an operation onto the thread pool's queue in EM.defer.
<internal:prelude>:6:in `lock': deadlock detected (fatal)
from <internal:prelude>:6:in `synchronize'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.1-p378/lib/ruby/1.9.1/thread.rb:148:in `push'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bundler/gems/eventmachine-6c7997798034/lib/eventmachine.rb:996:in `defer'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/connection.rb:54:in `process'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/connection.rb:42:in `receive_data'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bundler/gems/eventmachine-6c7997798034/lib/eventmachine.rb:195:in `run_machine'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bundler/gems/eventmachine-6c7997798034/lib/eventmachine.rb:195:in `run'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:57:in `start'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/server.rb:156:in `start'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/controllers/controller.rb:80:in `start'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/runner.rb:177:in `run_command'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/lib/thin/runner.rb:143:in `run!'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/gems/thin-1.2.7/bin/thin:6:in `<top (required)>'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/thin:19:in `load'
from /Users/nathansobo/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.1-p378/bin/thin:19:in `<main>'`
There's reference to this exact same stack trace in another
(resolved) ticket:
https://thin.lighthouseapp.com/projects/7212/tickets/118-threaded-m...
I am using an EventMachine release that incorporates the supposed fix to that issue: ref 6c7997798034
I'm confused as to how pushing onto a stdlib queue could ever cause a deadlock. I don't understand what other blocked thread could possibly be holding this mutex, because the critical section doesn't grab any locks or invoke any code. Am I missing something big?
Perhaps this is the wrong forum to bring this up, but I figured I'd start at the top of the stack.
Thanks for your time!
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Marc-André Cournoyer December 1st, 2010 @ 05:25 PM
You should report this issue to EventMachine project. The Thin threaded option is still considered experimental (see thin -h).
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