jquery / jquery/infrastructure-puppet
Update notifier-server to kill/restart processes that timeout and never complete
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Type: Enhancement
- Dominant language
- Puppet
- Stars
- 12
- Forks
- 9
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Currently if notifier-service forks a process we have no way to kill it if it does not exit in a timely manner.
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Research direction
Start by locating notifier-service's process-forking and timeout-handling entry points; the issue does not name files or tests. Trace how a child process is monitored, then define completion as timed-out processes being killed and notifier-service restarting them reliably.
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Assessment
- Domain
- backend, infrastructure
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 28/100