Delayed Jobs workers getting timed out on engineyard

Question

I think i'm having a problem where engineyard is adding a timeout to some of my delayed job workers, (seems to be 10 minutes). I have a copy process that can run for > 10 minutes and everytime it gets to that 10 minutes threshold the job is killed. Is there anyway to configure the engineyard timeout for worker instances?? I'm looking through and all I see is timeouts regarding nginx/apache

Answer 1

There isn't a timeout set for the Delayed Job workers, so this is more likely a memory usage issue. Monit tracks the memory consumed by the workers and will restart those that reach a set threshold. Monit's actions will be logged in /var/log/syslog, so this can be checked to confirm if Monit is terminating the workers. The memory threshold is set in the /etc/monit.d/delayed_job.monitrc file(s) and can be increased to fit the workers' requirements. After alteration of the configuration Monit must be reloaded using sudo monit reload.

If you submit a ticket at https://support.cloud.engineyard.com the support staff will be more than happy to help you further diagnose this issue.