look at this https://github.com/LearnBoost/up
it in fact spinns new worker processes and let the old ones live for defined amount of time, so they have the chance to end their work gracefully before they die. and you have a cluster and simple keep-alive monitoring for free. Am Dienstag, 19. Februar 2013 01:05:55 UTC+1 schrieb Federico Kereki: > > Hi! > > What's the best way to reload a node.js website? I mean, working with > Apache/PHP if you just upload a new PHP file, all newcomers will use that > file, without needing to restart/reload Apache. However, if you simply > "kill" a node.js process and restart it, currently connected users will be > in trouble, processes may be aborted in the middle, updates could be lost, > etc. > > I'm guessing that you could have a process running periodically, which > would monitor loaded modules for updates and, if needed, "require(...)" > them again after having done a "delete require.cache[...]". > > I've also found recommendations for "node-supervisor" and "nodemon", and > I'm sure there must be some more out there. > > My only hard-and-fast requirement is that no connection is lost because of > the restart -- connected users shouldn't notice any change at all, though I > could stand a certain delay. > > What's the best way? > > Thanks, and best regards, > Federico Kereki > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
