I am currently having a problem with database connections after a Capistrano deploy. On the database server it seems like unicorn does not sever the previous connections and it just keeps adding on top of the old ones. I am doing a preload true, and I also have octopus gem installed as well if that matters. I am not too sure who is to blame for this. I have pasted my unicorn config for the part that matters. Any help is appreciated!
before_fork do |server, worker|
if defined?(ActiveRecord::Base)
ActiveRecord::Base.connection.disconnect!
end
old_pid = "/tmp/unicorn.my_app_name.pid.oldbin"
if File.exists?(old_pid) && server.pid != old_pid
begin
Process.kill("QUIT", File.read(old_pid).to_i)
rescue Errno::ENOENT, Errno::ESRCH
end
end
end
after_fork do |server, worker|
ActiveRecord::Base.connection_proxy.instance_variable_get(:@shards).each {|k,v| v.clear_reloadable_connections! }
if defined?(ActiveRecord::Base)
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection
end
if Process.ppid > 1 # Not the daemon
child_pid = server.config[:pid].sub(".pid", ".#{worker.nr}.pid")
File.open(child_pid, "wb") {|f| f << Process.pid }
end
end
"ps aux"
Your "New Theory" is correct. 2 workers with 5 connections will result in 10 total. Answer is here - Unicorn do not close DB connections