Associated GitHub issue: https://github.com/sgentle/phantomjs-node/issues/280
I have a simple app that does the following:
var
phantom = require('phantom'),
express = require('express'),
serve = express();
serve.get('/foo', function (req, res) {
try {
phantom.create(function (ph) {
console.log('Phantom browser created w/ pid: ', ph.process.pid);
ph.onError = function (msg, trace) {
var msgStack = ['PHANTOM ERROR: ' + msg];
if (trace && trace.length) {
msgStack.push('TRACE:');
trace.forEach(function (t) {
msgStack.push(' -> ' + (t.file || t.sourceURL) + ': ' + t.line + (t.function ? ' (in function ' + t.function + ')' : ''));
});
}
console.log(msgStack.join('\n'));
};
ph.createPage(function(page){
page.open('http://www.stackoverflow.com', function(status){
res.json({pageStatus: status});
page.close();
ph.exit();
});
});
});
} catch(e){
console.log(e);
throw e;
}
});
As long as I run this in WebStorm, it runs just fine and I can hit the /foo endpoint w/ as many concurrent requests as I want and everything works as expected.
But as soon as I try to scale it behind PM2 w/ pm2 start -i 0 phantomapp.js, everything still works fine as long as I don't throw too many requests at it. The second I open up two browser windows and hit refresh in both, I get the following in pm2 logs. At which point, ALL 8 processes managed by PM2 just "disappear"! What am I doing wrong?? :
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:17: [PM2] Error caught by domain:
PM2: AssertionError: false == true
PM2: at RoundRobinHandle.add (cluster.js:140:3)
PM2: at queryServer (cluster.js:480:12)
PM2: at Worker.onmessage (cluster.js:438:7)
PM2: at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (cluster.js:692:8)
PM2: at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:129:20)
PM2: at handleMessage (child_process.js:324:10)
PM2: at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:352:11)
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: [PM2] Automatic `pm2 update` failed. Killing PM2 daemon and its processes...
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: pm2 has been killed by signal, dumping process list before exit...
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: Stopping app:phantomapp id:0
PM2: assert.js:86
PM2: throw new assert.AssertionError({
PM2: ^
PM2: AssertionError: false == true
PM2: at RoundRobinHandle.add (cluster.js:140:3)
PM2: at queryServer (cluster.js:480:12)
PM2: at Worker.onmessage (cluster.js:438:7)
PM2: at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (cluster.js:692:8)
PM2: at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:129:20)
PM2: at handleMessage (child_process.js:324:10)
PM2: at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:352:11)
phantomapp-0 (err): Process disconnected from parent !
PM2: [PM2] Spawning PM2 daemon
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: [PM2][WORKER] Started with refreshing interval: 30000
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: [[[[ PM2/God daemon launched ]]]]
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: BUS system [READY] on port /Users/matthewmarcus/.pm2/pub.sock
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: RPC interface [READY] on port /Users/matthewmarcus/.pm2/rpc.sock
PM2: [PM2] PM2 Successfully daemonized
PM2: Be sure to have the latest version by doing `npm install pm2@latest -g` before doing this procedure.
PM2: [PM2] Stopping PM2...
PM2: [PM2][WARN] No process found
PM2: [PM2] All processes have been stopped and deleted
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: PM2 is being killed via kill method
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: RPC socket closed
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:18: PUB socket closed
PM2: [PM2] PM2 stopped
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:19: [PM2][WORKER] Started with refreshing interval: 30000
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:19: [[[[ PM2/God daemon launched ]]]]
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:19: BUS system [READY] on port /Users/matthewmarcus/.pm2/pub.sock
PM2: 2015-05-27 18:53:19: RPC interface [READY] on port /Users/matthewmarcus/.pm2/rpc.sock
PM2: >>>>>>>>>> PM2 updated
PM2: ┌──────────┬────┬──────┬─────┬────────┬─────────┬────────┬────────┬──────────┐
PM2: │ App name │ id │ mode │ pid │ status │ restart │ uptime │ memory │ watching │
PM2: └──────────┴────┴──────┴─────┴────────┴─────────┴────────┴────────┴──────────┘
PM2: Use `pm2 show <id|name>` to get more details about an app
You can reproduce the same issue using node-native cluster:
var cluster = require('cluster');
if(cluster.isMaster){
var cpuCount = require('os').cpus().length;
for (var i = 0; i < cpuCount; i++){
cluster.fork();
}
cluster.on('exit', function(worker){
console.log('Worker ' + woker.id + ' died. Forking...');
cluster.fork();
});
} else {
var
phantom = require('phantom'),
express = require('express'),
serve = express();
serve.get('/foo', function (req, res) {
try {
phantom.create(function (ph) {
console.log('Phantom browser created w/ pid: ', ph.process.pid);
ph.onError = function (msg, trace) {
var msgStack = ['PHANTOM ERROR: ' + msg];
if (trace && trace.length) {
msgStack.push('TRACE:');
trace.forEach(function (t) {
msgStack.push(' -> ' + (t.file || t.sourceURL) + ': ' + t.line + (t.function ? ' (in function ' + t.function + ')' : ''));
});
}
console.log(msgStack.join('\n'));
};
ph.createPage(function(page){
page.open('http://www.stackoverflow.com', function(status){
res.json({pageStatus: status});
page.close();
ph.exit();
});
});
});
} catch(e){
console.log(e);
throw e;
}
});
}
Which produces the following error in the console when attempting to handle > 1 request concurrently:
assert.js:86
throw new assert.AssertionError({
^
AssertionError: false == true
at RoundRobinHandle.add (cluster.js:140:3)
at queryServer (cluster.js:480:12)
at Worker.onmessage (cluster.js:438:7)
at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (cluster.js:692:8)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:129:20)
at handleMessage (child_process.js:324:10)
at Pipe.channel.onread (child_process.js:352:11)
