I've got some code that looks very much like the sample in the Cluster documentation at http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.6.0/api/cluster.html, to wit:
var cluster = require('cluster');
var server = require('./mycustomserver');
var numCPUs = require('os').cpus().length;
if (cluster.isMaster) {
var i;
// Master process
for (i = 0; i < numCPUs; i++) {
cluster.fork();
}
cluster.on('death', function (worker) {
console.log('Worker ' + worker.pid + ' died');
});
} else {
// Worker process
server.createServer({port: 80}, function(err, result) {
if (err) {
throw err;
} else {
console.log('Thread listening on port ' + result.port);
}
});
}
I've installed node-inspector and tried using both it and the Eclipse V8 plugin detailed at https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Using-Eclipse-as-Node-Applications-Debugger to debug my application, but it looks like I can't hook a debugger up to forked cluster instances to put breakpoints at the interesting server logic--I can only debug the part of the application that spawns the cluster processes. Does anybody know if I can in fact do such a thing, or am I going to have to refactor my application to use only a single thread when in debugging mode?
I'm a Node.js newbie, so I'm hoping there's something obvious I'm missing here.