When I use PM2 to run multiple processes (i.e. cluster mode) and one of those processes encounters an uncaught error, PM2 does not restart that process.
Why?
How do I make it restart workers in cluster mode?
Example code
// index.js
let counter = 0;
setInterval(function(){
if(counter >= 5) {
throw new Error('Worker crash. Why no restart?');
}
counter++;
console.log('Worker alive: ' + Date.now() );
},500);
Run on the cmd line
pm2 start index.js -i 4
pm2 log
Eventually all the workers crash and never restart.
Whats the point of restarting if it can only be done on a single process.
pm2 logs (merged into single file)
Worker alive: 1522937847186
Worker alive: 1522937847231
Worker alive: 1522937847276
Worker alive: 1522937847324
Worker alive: 1522937847691
Worker alive: 1522937847736
Worker alive: 1522937847781
Worker alive: 1522937847830
Worker alive: 1522937848193
Worker alive: 1522937848238
Worker alive: 1522937848283
Worker alive: 1522937848332
Worker alive: 1522937848693
Worker alive: 1522937848738
Worker alive: 1522937848783
Worker alive: 1522937848832
Worker alive: 1522937849194
Worker alive: 1522937849238
Worker alive: 1522937849284
Worker alive: 1522937849333
Error: Worker crash. Why no restart?
at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/usrname/docs/Projects_NodeJS/project/app/index.js:49:11)
at ontimeout (timers.js:466:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:304:5)
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:267:5)
Error: Worker crash. Why no restart?
at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/usrname/docs/Projects_NodeJS/project/app/index.js:49:11)
at ontimeout (timers.js:466:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:304:5)
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:267:5)
Error: Worker crash. Why no restart?
at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/usrname/docs/Projects_NodeJS/project/app/index.js:49:11)
at ontimeout (timers.js:466:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:304:5)
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:267:5)
Error: Worker crash. Why no restart?
at Timeout._onTimeout (/home/usrname/docs/Projects_NodeJS/project/app/index.js:49:11)
at ontimeout (timers.js:466:11)
at tryOnTimeout (timers.js:304:5)
at Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:267:5)
Downgrading to Node version 8 LTS seems to have fixed the problem.
I had Node version 9 installed and the problem occurred on both Windows and Ubuntu but when I downgraded to version 8, it all worked.