ruby-concurrency / ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ruby
DaemonThreadFactory creating new Java thread factory each time it creates a new thread
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Description
Background Info
- Ruby implementation: JRuby
concurrent-rubyversion:>= 1.1.10, earlier versions may be affected as wellconcurrent-ruby-extinstalled: noconcurrent-ruby-edgeused: no
Issue
Concurrent::DaemonThreadFactory#newThread calls defaultThreadFactory() each time it generates a new thread, which creates a new Java ThreadFactory object each time. This is clearly at odds with intended ThreadFactory usage and is (potentially) problematic in a few ways:
- It leads to thread names of the form
pool-X-thread-Y, where Y is always 1 while X is different for each thread. This is confusing as it suggests that the Concurrent Ruby thread pool is not actually pooling and reusing threads. - This does not seem to be happening in the Concurrent Ruby code, but if a reference to each
ThreadFactoryinstance is retained somewhere, the result will be a memory leak. - Threads created by a
ThreadFactoryinstance normally belong to the same Java thread group, which has permissions implications and may cause errors in code that expects all the threads in a Concurrent Ruby thread pool to belong to the same Java thread group.
Proposed Solution
Call defaultThreadFactory() once in Concurrent::DaemonThreadFactory#initialize, store the resulting factory in an instance variable, and reuse it as needed in Concurrent::DaemonThreadFactory#newThread.
Happy to create a PR with the fix if this seems like an acceptable solution.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Search for Concurrent::DaemonThreadFactory and read its initialize and newThread methods, along with the use of defaultThreadFactory(). Reuse one Java ThreadFactory for the instance as proposed, then verify that threads created by the factory use incrementing thread numbers and share the intended thread factory and group.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, ruby
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100