[Chicken-janitors] #1450: TCP connections can cause process to hang

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#1450: TCP connections can cause process to hang
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 Reporter:  sjamaan                  |                 Owner:
     Type:  defect                   |                Status:  new
 Priority:  major                    |             Milestone:  4.14.0
Component:  core libraries           |               Version:  4.13.0
 Keywords:  tcp, spiffy, sockets,    |  Estimated difficulty:  hard
  hang, scheduler                    |
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 As reported by Jim Ursetto, his Spiffy server (which is running on
 localhost behind a NGINX proxy) will stop responding at some point. It is
 currently not 100% clear when exactly this happens.

 As Jim says:

 > I believe I’ve tracked down the problem, although not the solution yet.
 It seems the file descriptor table is filled up with half open sockets.
 lsof shows:
 >
 > …
 > chickadee 13361 jim 1019u sock 0,7 0t0 2365037 can't identify protocol
 > chickadee 13361 jim 1020u sock 0,7 0t0 2366414 can't identify protocol
 > chickadee 13361 jim 1021u sock 0,7 0t0 2368047 can't identify protocol
 > chickadee 13361 jim 1022u sock 0,7 0t0 2368343 can't identify protocol
 >
 > And this message on Linux seems to occur when sockets are half-open (or
 half-closed, if you are a pessimist).

 And later:

 > my hunch is that this happens when the connecting side hangs up while we
 are still sending. Which is probably obvious from my previous description
 of the problem. I was going to start attacking it by inserting strategic
 sleeps at various locations to try and manually trigger it, although you
 probably have a better way. Obviously you do appear to catch all errors in
 spiffy, so I’m not sure if one of those error handlers is neglecting to
 close a socket, if the socket close fails and isn’t reported, or if this
 is a deeper bug inside the tcp unit.

 I hear faint echoes of #340...

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1450>
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