The existing organization, of returning an opaque blob from
`build_bot_request`, which was later consumed by
`send_data_to_server`, is not particularly sensible; the steps become
oddly split between the OutgoingWebhookWorker, `do_rest_call`, and the
`OutgoingWebhookServiceInterface`.
Make the `OutgoingWebhookServiceInterface` in charge of building,
making, and returning the request in one method; another method
handles extracting content from a successful response. `do_rest_call`
is responsible for calling both halves of this, and doing common error
handling.
The `deployment` key was only set in `do_report_error`, which is now
only used in one codepath (the queue worker). The logging handlers on
staging call notify_server_error directly, which omits the
`deployment` key.
Remove the odd one-of key, and instead simply do dispatch in
`do_report_error`.
Not all of the workers are known to be safe to interrupt; they might
leave inconsistent state. As such, terminating them with timeouts
should currently only be a last-resort against stalled queues, not a
regular occurrence.
Since the exception can be triggered at arbitrary places in the stack
based on whenever the alarm happens to fire, they do not often group
together.
Explicitly group them together, grouped only by which queue the work
is in.
We already trust ids that are put on our queue
for deferred work. For example, see the code for
"mark_stream_messages_as_read_for_everyone"
We now pass stream_recipient_id when we queue
up work for do_mark_stream_messages_as_read.
This generally saves about 3 queries per
user when we unsubscribe them from a stream.
Since this was using repead individual get() calls previously, it
could not be monitored for having a consumer. Add it in, by marking
it of queue type "consumer" (the default), and adding Nagios lines for
it.
Also adjust missedmessage_emails to be monitored; it stopped using
LoopQueueProcessingWorker in 5cec566cb9, but was never added back
into the set of monitored consumers.
This low-level interface allows consuming from a queue with timeouts.
This can be used to either consume in batches (with an upper timeout),
or one-at-a-time. This is notably more performant than calling
`.get()` repeatedly (what json_drain_queue does under the hood), which
is "*highly discouraged* as it is *very inefficient*"[1].
Before this change:
```
$ ./manage.py queue_rate --count 10000 --batch
Purging queue...
Enqueue rate: 11158 / sec
Dequeue rate: 3075 / sec
```
After:
```
$ ./manage.py queue_rate --count 10000 --batch
Purging queue...
Enqueue rate: 11511 / sec
Dequeue rate: 19938 / sec
```
[1] https://www.rabbitmq.com/consumers.html#fetching
Despite its name, the `queue_size` method does not return the number
of items in the queue; it returns the number of items that the local
consumer has delivered but unprocessed. These are often, but not
always, the same.
RabbitMQ's queues maintain the queue of unacknowledged messages; when
a consumer connects, it sends to the consumer some number of messages
to handle, known as the "prefetch." This is a performance
optimization, to ensure the consumer code does not need to wait for a
network round-trip before having new data to consume.
The default prefetch is 0, which means that RabbitMQ immediately dumps
all outstanding messages to the consumer, which slowly processes and
acknowledges them. If a second consumer were to connect to the same
queue, they would receive no messages to process, as the first
consumer has already been allocated them. If the first consumer
disconnects or crashes, all prior events sent to it are then made
available for other consumers on the queue.
The consumer does not know the total size of the queue -- merely how
many messages it has been handed.
No change is made to the prefetch here; however, future changes may
wish to limit the prefetch, either for memory-saving, or to allow
multiple consumers to work the same queue.
Rename the method to make clear that it only contains information
about the local queue in the consumer, not the full RabbitMQ queue.
Also include the waiting message count, which is used by the
`consume()` iterator for similar purpose to the pending events list.
Otherwise, if consume_func raised an exception for any reason *other*
than the alarm being fired, the still-pending alarm would have fired
later at some arbitrary point in the calling code.
We need two try…finally blocks in case the signal arrives just before
signal.alarm(0).
Signed-off-by: Anders Kaseorg <anders@zulip.com>
SIGALRM is the simplest way to set a specific maximum duration that
queue workers can take to handle a specific message. This only works
in non-threaded environments, however, as signal handlers are
per-process, not per-thread.
The MAX_CONSUME_SECONDS is set quite high, at 10s -- the longest
average worker consume time is embed_links, which hovers near 1s.
Since just knowing the recent mean does not give much information[1],
it is difficult to know how much variance is expected. As such, we
set the threshold to be such that only events which are significant
outliers will be timed out. This can be tuned downwards as more
statistics are gathered on the runtime of the workers.
The exception to this is DeferredWorker, which deals with quite-long
requests, and thus has no enforceable SLO.
[1] https://www.autodesk.com/research/publications/same-stats-different-graphs
Currently, drain_queue and json_drain_queue ack every message as it is
pulled off of the queue, until the queue is empty. This means that if
the consumer crashes between pulling a batch of messages off the
queue, and actually processing them, those messages will be
permanently lost. Sending an ACK on every message also results in a
significant amount lot of traffic to rabbitmq, with notable
performance implications.
Send a singular ACK after the processing has completed, by making
`drain_queue` into a contextmanager. Additionally, use the `multiple`
flag to ACK all of the messages at once -- or explicitly NACK the
messages if processing failed. Sending a NACK will re-queue them at
the front of the queue.
Performance of a no-op dequeue before this change:
```
$ ./manage.py queue_rate --count 50000 --batch
Purging queue...
Enqueue rate: 10847 / sec
Dequeue rate: 2479 / sec
```
Performance of a no-op dequeue after this change (a 25% increase):
```
$ ./manage.py queue_rate --count 50000 --batch
Purging queue...
Enqueue rate: 10752 / sec
Dequeue rate: 3079 / sec
```
This system can't update stats while the queue is idle, without using
threads for this, but at least we ensure to update the file after
consuming an event if more than MAX_SECONDS_BEFORE_UPDATE_STATS passed
since the last update, regardless of the number of iterations done so
far.
The race condition is described in the comment block removed by this
commit. This leaves room for another, remaining race condition
that should be virtually impossible, but nevertheless it seems
worthwhile to have it documented in the code, so we put a new comment
describing it.
As a final note, this is not a new race condition,
it was hypothetically possible with the old code as well.
The query to finds and marks all unread UserMessages in the stream as read
can be quite expensive, so we'll move that work to the deferred_work
queue and split it into batches.
Fixes#15770.
This queue had a race condition with creation of another Timer while
maybe_send_batched_emails is still doing its work, which may cause
two or more threads to be running maybe_send_batched_emails
at the same time, mutating the shared data simultaneously.
Another less likely potential race condition was that
maybe_send_batched_emails after sending out its email, can call
ensure_timer(). If the consume function is run simultaneously
in the main thread, it will call ensure_timer() too, which,
given unfortunate timings, might lead to both calls setting a new Timer.
We add locking to the queue to avoid such race conditions.
Tested manually, by print debugging with the following setup:
1. Making handle_missedmessage_emails sleep 2 seconds for each email,
and changed BATCH_DURATION to 1s to make the queue start working
right after launching.
2. Putting a bunch of events in the queue.
3. ./manage.py process_queue --queue_name missedmessage_emails
4. Once maybe_send_batched_emails is called and while it's processing
the events, I pushed more events to the queue. That triggers the
consume() function and ensure_timer().
Before implementing the locking mechanism, this causes two threads
to run maybe_send_batched_emails at the same time, mutating each other's
shared data, causing a traceback such as
Exception in thread Thread-3:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/threading.py", line 916, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/threading.py", line 1182, in run
self.function(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/srv/zulip/zerver/worker/queue_processors.py", line 507, in maybe_send_batched_emails
del self.events_by_recipient[user_profile_id]
KeyError: '5'
With the locking mechanism, things get handled as expected, and
ensure_timer() exits if it can't obtain the lock due to
maybe_send_batched_emails still working.
Co-authored-by: Tim Abbott <tabbott@zulip.com>
The exception trace only goes from where the exception was thrown up
to where the `logging.exception` call is; any context as to where
_that_ was called from is lost, unless `stack_info` is passed as well.
Having the stack is particularly useful for Sentry exceptions, which
gain the full stack trace.
Add `stack_info=True` on all `logging.exception` calls with a
non-trivial stack; we omit `wsgi.py`. Adjusts tests to match.
consume_time_seconds wasn't properly defined at the beginning, so when
a BaseException that isn't a subclass of Exception is thrown, the
finally: block could be entered with it still undefined.
Without this change, pyflakes reports this exception:
pyflakes | zerver/worker/queue_processors.py:152:9 local variable 'e' is assigned to but never used
pyflakes | zerver/worker/queue_processors.py:155:81 undefined name 'e'
We use the EMAIL_TIMEOUT django setting to timeout after 15s of trying
to send an email. This will nicely lead to retries in the email_senders
queue, due to the retry_send_email_failures decorator.
smtlib documentation suggests that socket.timeout can be raised as the
result of timing out, so in attempts I'm getting
smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected. Either way, seems appropriate to add
socket.timeout to the exception that we catch.
Anders Kaseorg
Alex Vandiver
Mateusz Mandera
Steve Howell
Abhijeet Prasad Bodas
Tim Abbott
Mateusz Mandera