I'm trying to implement a message queue using node, socket.io, and redis. I am attempting to follow the reliable queue pattern outlined Here. I am trying to read a logfile (60M in size) in line-by-line (will be changing this later) and pump the lines into the queue for processing later. However, I am running into a memory allocation issue. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this and would like some guidance on where to start. I can't tell if the issue is in reading the file, or in the redis client. I have been able to add messages to the queue one by one like this :
socket.emit('message', 'some sort of log line here');
Therefore I know the listener is working, but when I run the socketClient.js file It will spin out for a bit and then ultimately fail with the following generic error message:
FATAL ERROR: JS Allocation failed - process out of memory
Is there some error handling, or profiling I can add to get more information on where this is failing?
Here is the code:
socketListener.js
var util = require("util"),
redis = require("redis"),
io = require('socket.io').listen(8088)
client = redis.createClient("7777", "localhost");
util.log("Established connection to redis");
io.sockets.on('connection', function(socket) {
util.log("socket connection established for socket : " + socket);
socket.on('message', function (data) {
util.log("received the following data : ");
util.log(JSON.stringify(data, 0, 3));
client.on("error", function(err) {
util.log("Error " + err);
});
try {
// reliable queue pattern implementation
util.log("queuing up the data in the list");
client.rpush('logList', data);
client.brpoplpush('logList', 'dequeueList', 10);
} catch (err) {
util.log("An error occurred : ");
util.log(JSON.stringify(err, 0, 3));
}
});
socket.on('disconnect', function() {});
});
socketClient.js
var io = require("socket.io-client");
var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:8088');
var redis = require('redis');
var util = require('util');
var fs = require('fs');
var readline = require('readline');
socket.on('connect', function() {
client = redis.createClient("7777", "localhost");
var rd = readline.createInterface({
input: fs.createReadStream('someLogFile.log'),
terminal: false
});
rd.on('line', function(line) {
util.log("reading line " + line);
socket.emit('message', line);
});
client.lrange('dequeueList', 0, -1, function(err, results) {
if (err) {
util.log(err);
} else {
var multi = client.multi();
for (var i=0; i < results.length; i++) {
util.log('got : ' + results[i]);
multi.hgetall(results[i]);
}
multi.exec(function(err, logs) {
util.log("executing the multi commands");
util.log(JSON.stringify(logs, 0 ,3));
})
};
});
})
Thank you in advance for the help!