process-manager

process-manager is a module for simple node.js and io.js process management, and wraps the cluster module.

Previously called SPaM (https://github.com/iandotkelly/spam)

Use

To install:

$ npm install process-manager

To create some processes, using the spawn method. This takes the following parameters:

• Configuration object
  • number (number of processes to spawn, e.g. 4)
  • timeout (time in milliseconds to allow each spawn to occur, before timing out)
  • strategy (either 'series', or 'parallel', to spawn one at a time, or all together)
  • readyOn (what signal indicates the script is ready, 'ready' or 'listening' - default)
• Callback when initialization of the module is complete

var pm = require('process-manager');

// to create 4 processes using the myscript.js script - ready on listen(),
// created in parallel, with a timeout of 60 seconds
pm.setScript('./myscript.js');
pm.spawn(
	{
		number: 4,
		timeout: 60000,
		strategy: 'parallel'
	}, function(err) {
			// callback occurs when all processes have declared they are working
			// or a timeout occurs
			if (err) {
				console.log('oops');
			}
});

// to create 2 processes callback is called when 'ready' message sent, not on 'listen'
// created in series, with no timeout
pm.spawn(
	{
		number: 2,
		timeout: 0,
		strategy: 'serial',
		readyOn: 'ready'
	},  function(err) {
			// callback occurs when all processes have declared they are working
			// or a timeout occurs
			if (err) {
				console.log('oops');
			}
});

If you want to log what's going on in process-manager

pm.on('log', function(message) {
	// do some logging
	console.log('PM: ' + message);
});

If you want to gracefully restart all the processes, by starting a new worker before killing the old worker, do this with the restart method.

// graceful restart of all the processes
pm.restart({ strategy: 'series' }, function(err) {
	if (err) {
		console.log('oops');
	}
});

To stop all the processes:

// stop all
pm.stop(function() {
	console.log('stop initiated')
});

NOTE: The scripts that are run, either need to run server.listen() or emit a specific 'ready' message. If they do not do this, then process-manager will assume they've not started and time them out. You can emit a 'ready' message using a convenience function or explicitly using process.send();

// using the signal module
var signal = require('process-manager').signal;
signal.ready();

// using the process.send method
process.send({ cmd: 'ready'});

Tests

To run the npm unit tests, install development dependencies and run tests with 'npm test' or 'make'.

$ cd node_modules/process-manager
$ npm install
$ npm test

If you contribute to the project, tests are written in mocha, using should.js or the node.js assert module.

Coverage can be measured using the node-jscoverage project. After installing jscoverage from github, just:

$ make test-cov

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013-2015 Ian Kelly

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