Unicorn is an HTTP server for Rack applications designed to only serve
fast clients on low-latency, high-bandwidth connections and take
advantage of features in Unix/Unix-like kernels. Slow clients should
only be served by placing a reverse proxy capable of fully buffering
both the the request and response in between Unicorn and slow clients.
- http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
- [email protected]
- git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git
Changes: small fixes, PRNG workarounds
Mainly small fixes, improvements, and workarounds for fork() issues
with pseudo-random number generators shipped with Ruby (Kernel#rand,
OpenSSL::Random (used by SecureRandom and also by Rails).
The PRNG issues are documented in depth here (and links to Ruby
Redmine):
unicorn.git - Rack HTTP server for Unix and fast clients
unicorn.git - Rack HTTP server for Unix and fast clients
If you’re too lazy to upgrade, you can just do this in your after_fork
hooks:
after_fork do |server,worker|
tmp = srand
OpenSSL::Random.seed(tmp.to_s) if defined?(OpenSSL::Random)
end
There are also small log reopening (SIGUSR1) improvements:
-
relative paths may also be reopened, there’s a small chance this
will break with a handful of setups, but unlikely. This should
make configuration easier especially since the “working_directory”
configurator directive exists. Brought up by Matthew Kocher:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general/900 -
workers will just die (and restart) if log reopening fails for
any reason (including user error). This is to workaround the issue
reported by Emmanuel G.:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.unicorn.general/906
