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mod_graceful_shutdown: Experiment in improving the shutdown experience
author Kim Alvefur <zash@zash.se>
date Thu, 05 May 2016 15:43:01 +0200
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1 This module is an experiment about a more graceful shutdown process.
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3 Why
4 ===
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6 When shutting down, a number of sessions, connections and other things
7 are teared down. Due to all these things happening very quickly,
8 sometimes eg client unavailable notifications don't make it to all
9 remote contacts because the server-to-server connections are teared down
10 just after.
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12 How
13 ===
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15 This module works by breaking the shutdown process into separate steps
16 with a brief pause between them.
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18 It goes something like this
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20 1. Stop accepting new client connections.
21 2. Close all client connections.
22 3. Fire event for everything else.
23 4. Tell `net.server` to quit the main loop.
24 5. ???
25 6. Still here? Kill itself.
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