[Dancer-users] many dancer apps with Starman (part 3)

[Mr. Puneet Kishor]

On Jul 18, 2011, at 4:56 PM, David Precious wrote:

> On Monday 18 July 2011 22:43:25 Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote:
>> The above is great help. However, I am trying to use `start_server` with
>> `plackup` options and getting the following error
>> 
>> $start_server --port=5000 --pid-file=pids/app.pid
>> --status-file=status/app.status -- plackup -s Starman -w 10 -E production
>> -D -a ~/Sites/blog/bin/app.pl start_server (pid:4453) starting now...
>> starting new worker 4454
>> new worker 4454 seems to have failed to start, exit status:0
>> starting new worker 4461
>> new worker 4461 seems to have failed to start, exit status:0
>> starting new worker 4468
>> new worker 4468 seems to have failed to start, exit status:0
>> starting new worker 4475
>> ^Cworker 4475 died unexpectedly with status:0, restarting
>> starting new worker 4482
>> received INT, sending TERM to all workers:4482
>> worker 4482 died, status:0
>> exitting
>> 
>> and, in spite of the above, it seemed to have started several starman
>> master processes. That is not what I wanted.
>> 
>> $ps -ax | grep 'starman master'
>> 4455 ??         0:00.01 starman master           
>> 4462 ??         0:00.01 starman master           
>> 4469 ??         0:00.01 starman master           
>> 4476 ??         0:00.01 starman master           
>> 4483 ??         0:00.01 starman master           
>> 4496 ttys001    0:00.00 grep starman master
>> 
>> of course, the bare plackup command works fine
>> 
>> $plackup -s Starman -w 10 -E production -D -a ~/Sites/blog/bin/app.pl
>> 
>> The above starts only one master and 10 workers.
>> 
>> Suggestions?
> 
> I suspect that start_server is expecting what it runs to stay around, whereas 
> plackup forks a new process then exits - and every time it does, start_server 
> tries to start another.
> 

Does that mean I can't use start_server as above?

I am curious -- how are others solving this problem. I seem to be one of the lonely Dancer users who has still not gotten the hang of starting several apps and managing them. While not directly a Dancer issue, surely this is a problem that Dancer servers would face, no?

Puneet.