[zeromq-dev] 0MQ-based proxy worker crashes with "Assertion failed: pipe (bundled/zeromq/src/session_base.cpp:441)"

[Justin Karneges]

Hi Tomas,

This does not answer your question at all, but you might be interested 
in the Zurl project. It is a 0MQ daemon that does HTTP requests. You can 
speak to it with REQ/REP.

https://github.com/fanout/zurl

On 09/08/2014 06:44 PM, Tomas Krajca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a 0MQ-based proxy, clients talk 0MQ to the proxy, the proxy
> then talks HTTP to do either a GET on a specific url endpoint or a POST
> on a specific endpoint (it always goes to one of these two url
> endpoints). I've got a master process that has a zmq.ROUTER towards its
> clients (zmq.REQ) and a zmq.DEALER towards its workers (zmq.REP). The
> master is a single process, no threading, normal 0MQ, it spawns a worker
> processes via multiprocessing, this worker process uses gevent and
> zmq.green to spawn the actual (green) workers (those use grequests to
> talk HTTP). The master uses 0MQ auth to authenticate its clients. It
> should all be pretty standard but note that this is my first
> gevent/zmq.green based project.
>
> So this proxy runs pretty well untill the worker process (I run only 1
> worker process) crashes with 'Assertion failed: pipe
> (bundled/zeromq/src/session_base.cpp:441)"' on its stderr. There is
> nothing else in the logs or on stdout that would give me any more idea
> of what is going on. I can see the master running and netcat to its
> zmq.ROUTER so its definitely the worker that dies. Sorry, I have no idea
> how to reproduce this, once it crashed after 5 hours of working nicely,
> second time it crashed after about a day.
>
> Here is a snippet of the worker code (the relevant bits):
> http://pastebin.com/usi0FXDL
>
> The STSDBResponder uses grequests to do the HTTP, there should be
> nothing special about that.
>
> This happens on CentOS 6.5, the proxy is running in virtualenv (pip
> install pyzmq):
>
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Jul 10 2014, 04:59:13)
> [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import zmq
>>>> zmq.zmq_version()
> '4.0.4'
>>>> zmq.__version__
> '14.3.1'
>>>>
>
> I have no idea whether this is a libzmq bug or pyzmq bug or a bug in my
> code or a system misconfiguration (do I need to increase ulimit or
> something?), I run 64 gevent threads. I tried to see session_base.cpp
> but it didn't help me understand why this could happen either.
>
> If anybody could please point me to a direction as to why the worker
> crashes, it would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tomas
>
>
>
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