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Author SHA1 Message Date
Evan Prodromou
e26a843caf Offload inbox updates to a queue handler to speed up posting online
Moved much of the writing that happens when posting a notice to a new
queuehandler, distribqueuehandler. This updates tags, groups, replies
and inboxes at queue time (or at Web time, if queues are disabled).

To make this work well, I had to break up the monolithic
Notice::blowCaches() and make cache blowing happen closer to where
data is updated.

Squashed commit of the following:

commit 5257626c62750ac4ac1db0ce2b71410c5711cfa3
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 14:56:41 2010 -0500

    slightly better handling of blowing tag memory cache

commit 8a22a3cdf6ec28685da129a0313e7b2a0837c9ef
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 01:42:56 2010 -0500

    change 'distribute' to 'distrib' so not too long for dbqueue

commit 7a063315b0f7fad27cb6fbd2bdd74e253af83e4f
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 01:39:15 2010 -0500

    change handle_notice() to handle() in distributqueuehandler

commit 1a39ccd28b9994137d7bfd21bb4f230546938e77
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 16:05:25 2010 -0500

    error with queuemanager

commit e6b3bb93f305cfd2de71a6340b8aa6fb890049b7
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 01:11:34 2010 -0500

    Blow memcache at different point rather than one big function for Notice class

commit 94d557cdc016187d1d0647ae1794cd94d6fb8ac8
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Mon Jan 25 00:48:44 2010 -0500

    Blow memcache at different point rather than one big function for Notice class

commit 1c781dd08c88a35dafc5c01230b4872fd6b95182
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 08:54:18 2010 -0500

    move broadcasting and distributing to new queuehandler

commit da3e46d26b84e4f028f34a13fd2ee373e4c1b954
Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net>
Date:   Wed Jan 20 08:53:12 2010 -0500

    Move distribution of notices to new distribute queue handler
2010-01-25 18:08:21 -05:00
Brion Vibber
c7507e7e9d XMPP queued output & initial retooling of DB queue manager to support non-Notice objects.
Queue handlers for XMPP individual & firehose output now send their XML stanzas
to another output queue instead of connecting directly to the chat server. This
lets us have as many general processing threads as we need, while all actual
XMPP input and output go through a single daemon with a single connection open.

This avoids problems with multiple connected resources:
* multiple windows shown in some chat clients (psi, gajim, kopete)
* extra load on server
* incoming message delivery forwarding issues

Database changes:
* queue_item drops 'notice_id' in favor of a 'frame' blob.
  This is based on Craig Andrews' work branch to generalize queues to take any
  object, but conservatively leaving out the serialization for now.
  Table updater (preserves any existing queued items) in db/rc3to09.sql

Code changes to watch out for:
* Queue handlers should now define a handle() method instead of handle_notice()
* QueueDaemon and XmppDaemon now share common i/o (IoMaster) and respawning
  thread management (RespawningDaemon) infrastructure.
* The polling XmppConfirmManager has been dropped, as the message is queued
  directly when saving IM settings.
* Enable $config['queue']['debug_memory'] to output current memory usage at
  each run through the event loop to watch for memory leaks

To do:
* Adapt XMPP i/o to component connection mode for multi-site support.
* XMPP input can also be broken out to a queue, which would allow the actual
  notice save etc to be handled by general queue threads.
* Make sure there are no problems with simply pushing serialized Notice objects
  to queues.
* Find a way to improve interactive performance of the database-backed queue
  handler; polling is pretty painful to XMPP.
* Possibly redo the way QueueHandlers are injected into a QueueManager. The
  grouping used to split out the XMPP output queue is a bit awkward.

Conflicts:

	scripts/xmppdaemon.php
2010-01-22 12:52:36 -08:00
Brion Vibber
598072468c --xmpp-only hack for queuedaemon.php to run separate queue daemon with only xmpp threads 2010-01-15 11:13:06 -08:00
Brion Vibber
58bc33850a temporary --skip-xmpp flag on queuedaemon.php, allows to run queue daemons but skip subscription to xmpp-based queues
(still working on making these behave gracefully when server is down)
2010-01-14 15:32:37 -08:00
Brion Vibber
ec145b73fc Major refactoring of queue handlers to support running multiple sites in one daemon.
Key changes:
* Initialization code moved from common.php to StatusNet class;
  can now switch configurations during runtime.
* As a consequence, configuration files must now be idempotent...
  Be careful with constant, function or class definitions.
* Control structure for daemons/QueueManager/QueueHandler has been refactored;
  the run loop is now managed by IoMaster run via scripts/queuedaemon.php
  IoManager subclasses are woken to handle socket input or polling, and may
  cover multiple sites.
* Plugins can implement notice queue handlers more easily by registering a
  QueueHandler class; no more need to add a daemon.

The new QueueDaemon runs from scripts/queuedaemon.php:

* This replaces most of the old *handler.php scripts; they've been refactored
  to the bare handler classes.
* Spawns multiple child processes to spread load; defaults to CPU count on
  Linux and Mac OS X systems, or override with --threads=N
* When multithreaded, child processes are automatically respawned on failure.
* Threads gracefully shut down and restart when passing a soft memory limit
  (defaults to 90% of memory_limit), limiting damage from memory leaks.
* Support for UDP-based monitoring: http://www.gitorious.org/snqmon

Rough control flow diagram:
QueueDaemon -> IoMaster -> IoManager
                           QueueManager [listen or poll] -> QueueHandler
                           XmppManager [ping & keepalive]
                           XmppConfirmManager [poll updates]

Todo:

* Respawning features not currently available running single-threaded.
* When running single-site, configuration changes aren't picked up.
* New sites or config changes affecting queue subscriptions are not yet
  handled without a daemon restart.
* SNMP monitoring output to integrate with general tools (nagios, ganglia)
* Convert XMPP confirmation message sends to use stomp queue instead of polling
* Convert xmppdaemon.php to IoManager?
* Convert Twitter status, friends import polling daemons to IoManager
* Clean up some error reporting and failure modes
* May need to adjust queue priorities for best perf in backlog/flood cases

Detailed code history available in my daemon-work branch:
http://www.gitorious.org/~brion/statusnet/brion-fixes/commits/daemon-work
2010-01-12 20:45:09 -08:00
Evan Prodromou
ae883ceb9b change controlyourself.ca to status.net 2009-08-25 18:19:04 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
d35b2d3f3c change laconi.ca to status.net 2009-08-25 18:16:46 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
c8b8f07af1 change Laconica and Control Yourself to StatusNet in PHP files 2009-08-25 18:12:20 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
49eaa04b50 return singleton if initialized 2009-07-04 01:42:42 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
49c5c6f92b move handling code into queuemanager 2009-07-04 00:31:28 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
887d35cfc8 better queue manager detection, new method fail() 2009-07-01 12:09:18 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
e0bf8ad95b Add UnQueueManager for immediate handling
Perhaps it's a little precious, but I took out the switches in
util.php to determine what's supposed to be sent when, and made
a queuemanager class that will just do things when they're supposed to
be done.
2009-07-01 11:34:12 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
4c256a6d7e better hook variables for StartQueueManager 2009-07-01 11:09:58 -04:00
Evan Prodromou
e5b758dbbe start of queuemanager code 2009-06-28 14:38:31 -04:00