[email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > We recently noticed random numbers from the Unicorn workers were > turning up lots of duplicates across requests. Is it possible that the > random seed generated when the ruby interpreter starts is duplicated > when the workers are forked, and not re-seeded after fork? > > If so, should I call Kernel.srand in after_fork, or is this something > which should be added to Unicorn?
It looks like a 1.8 bug, which version of Ruby are you running? Ruby 1.9.1 actually had a bug where it was reseeded improperly and led to segfaults (see KNOWN_ISSUES). 1.9.2 is fine afaik. -- Eric Wong _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
