I have a timer process in cmucl. At first when I created it
mp:*all-processes* showed only two processes: the initial process and the
timer.
Now, a couple of days later, besides these two processes,
mp:*all-processes* shows a lot of other processes that look like this:
#<Process Timeout monitor for #<Process my-timer {595956B5}> {598BDC75}>
#<Process Timeout monitor for #<Process my-timer {595956B5}> {598BCAED}>
#<Process Timeout monitor for #<Process my-timer {595956B5}> {59748E7D}>
....
where "my-timer" is the name of my timer process (it is simply an endless
loop sleeping most of the time and performing a http call every hour).
What are those "timeout monitor" processes and why their number keeps
growing? I tried to find documentation about it but did not succeed.
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vedm
vedm wrote:
> where "my-timer" is the name of my timer process (it is simply an endless
> loop sleeping most of the time and performing a http call every hour).
What are you using to performs these HTTP calls?
>
> What are those "timeout monitor" processes and why their number keeps
> growing?
Are you using with-timeout from CLOCC
http://clocc.sourceforge.net/dist/port.html)?
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Pozdrawiam,
Rafał Strzaliński (nabla)
nabla <···············@nospam.gmail.com> writes:
> vedm wrote:
>
> > where "my-timer" is the name of my timer process (it is simply an endless
> > loop sleeping most of the time and performing a http call every hour).
>
> What are you using to performs these HTTP calls?
I use the url package of CLLIB which is part of CLOCC:
http://clocc.sourceforge.net/dist/cllib.html
> > What are those "timeout monitor" processes and why their number keeps
> > growing?
>
> Are you using with-timeout from CLOCC
> http://clocc.sourceforge.net/dist/port.html)?
The timer looks exactly like you suggested it:
(defun make-timer (func period &optional func-args &key (name "a-timer"))
(mp:make-process #'(lambda ()
(loop
(if (null func-args)
(funcall func)
(funcall func func-args))
(sleep period))) :name name))
and I call it like this:
(make-timer 'get-data (* 60 60)
:name "my-timer ")
The get-data function pulls an html page from the Internet using
cllib:with-open-url, parses the html with Franz's html parser
(http://opensource.franz.com/xmlutils), extracts some data form the html
and saves it in a postgresql database using the CLSQL package.
So may be some of these packages use with-timeout, I do not know.
And my timeout processes are already 130...
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vedm
vedm wrote:
> nabla <···············@nospam.gmail.com> writes:
>
> The get-data function pulls an html page from the Internet using
> cllib:with-open-url, parses the html with Franz's html parser
> (http://opensource.franz.com/xmlutils), extracts some data form the html
> and saves it in a postgresql database using the CLSQL package.
>
> So may be some of these packages use with-timeout, I do not know.
Sorry I cant help. Maybe your function is unable to establish connection
and waits until timeout? Try decrease timeouts.
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Best regards,
Rafał Strzaliński (nabla)
nabla <···············@nospam.gmail.com> writes:
> Sorry I cant help. Maybe your function is unable to establish connection
> and waits until timeout? Try decrease timeouts.
Actually the whole thing works quite well: I get the data in my
database, and the only strange thing is those "timeout monitor"
processes. But today I see that their number does not increase any more,
so I do not think that this is a big problem.
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vedm