[Haskell-cafe] sendfile leaking descriptors on Linux?

[Thomas Hartman]

Thanks, I altered my top level request handler as follows

mysmartserver conf h stateProxy = do
      socket <- bindPort conf

       <I added (setSocketOption socket ReuseAddr 1) here>
       <Should this be added in a comment, or even in function code,
in Happstack.Server.SimpleHTTP? What are the tradeoffs, when would you
*not* want ot use ReuseAddr?)

      webserverTid <- forkIO $ simpleHTTPWithSocket socket conf h
      putStrLn . ( "starting happs server" ++ ) =<< time

      control <- startSystemState stateProxy -- start the HAppS state
system
      putStrLn . ( "happs state started" ++ ) =<< time

      waitForTermination
      killThread webserverTid
      stateShutdown control

I can't replicate the error reliably so I won't know if it actually
fixed the problem for a while, therefore just leaving this cookie
crumb trail in case others may find it helpful.

2010/2/26 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery at ece.cmu.edu>:
> On Feb 26, 2010, at 04:28 , Thomas Hartman wrote:
>>
>> me: Like mightybyte, I run my app in a shell loop that will just
>> restart it after a crash. But every once in a while it won't restart
>> because of the busy socket and I need to do a manual restart, killing
>> multiple processes (usually 2).
>>
>> the error I get is:
>>
>> bind: resource busy (Address already in use)
>
> This is on application restart?  It's not out of file descriptors, it's just
> the system keeping the socket around (netstat will show it in TIME_WAIT, or
> possibly in a shutdown negotiation state such as LAST_ACK, FIN_WAIT, etc.
>  TCP lacks *reliable* socket shutdown negotiation).
>
> You want to configure the socket with SO_REUSEADDR before trying to bind it
> (setSocketOption socket ReuseAddr 1).
>
> As to the portable version of sendfile, it's because not all systems offer a
> sendfile() system call.  Linux and *BSD do, and can use the native
> implementation; the portable version emulates sendfile() when it doesn't
> exist, at the price of additional CPU usage/system load (sendfile() having
> been created specifically to reduce system load in the common case for web
> servers).
>
> --
> brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
> system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
> electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH
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