[ruby-core:49392] [ruby-trunk - Bug #6653] 1.9.2/1.9.3 exhibit SEGV with many threads+tcp connections

Issue #6653 has been updated by erikh (Erik Hollensbe).


Sorry for the abysmally late response -- I can't seem to get the redmine here to send me email for some reason.

Hi Folks, so I actually sorted this out with some help from others. It's not an issue of memcached, or rather, didn't appear to be when I looked into it.

If you adjust the limit (either with ulimit or the Process:: tooling) it goes away. Conversely you *should* see this problem if you adjust the ulimit threshold below the amount of descriptors you're trying to work with.

I will also say that it has been a significant amount of time since I had this problem and have changed jobs since then, so I don't have access to specifics on build env, etc anymore.

The problem seems to be the handling of the case where the system says "I can't give you any more descriptors", not any specific value. I was using a lot of threads too, if that matters.
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Bug #6653: 1.9.2/1.9.3 exhibit SEGV with many threads+tcp connections
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6653#change-32937

Author: erikh (Erik Hollensbe)
Status: Feedback
Priority: Low
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 
ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p290 (2011-07-09 revision 32553) [x86_64-linux] 


the script: https://gist.github.com/4f36f8543ad702861096
the trace + output of the run: https://gist.github.com/cf7dd137ad65802c46ae

ruby -v is 1.9.2-p290, but we're seeing this in 1.9.3-p194 as well.

This does *not* exhibit on OS X, only linux, we tested on Ubuntu 12.04.

I can get more information if desired.

Just guessing, this appears to be a bug in how FD_SETSIZE is handled.

Thank you!


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