I recently needed to make use of our ActiveMQ message queue service to scale up write performance of CouchDB. However, there seemed to be a bug with JRuby that kills off the STOMP subscriber every 5 seconds. Digging a bit deeper into the STOMP source, I figured out a way to get around the bug by removing the timeout line.
ActiveMQ let me scale CouchDB writes from 10req/sec to 128req/sec. Huge performance win with very little effort.
STOMP Library Monkey Patch:
if defined?(JRUBY_VERSION)
module Stomp
class Connection
def _receive( read_socket )
@read_semaphore.synchronize do
line = read_socket.gets
return nil if line.nil?
# If the reading hangs for more than 5 seconds, abort the parsing process
#Timeout::timeout(5, Stomp::Error::PacketParsingTimeout) do
# Reads the beginning of the message until it runs into a empty line
message_header = ”
begin
message_header += line
begin
line = read_socket.gets
rescue
p read_socket
end
end until line =~ /^\s?\n$/
# Checks if it includes content_length header
content_length = message_header.match /content–length\s?:\s?(\d+)\s?\n/
message_body = ”
# If it does, reads the specified amount of bytes
char = ”
if content_length
message_body = read_socket.read content_length[1].to_i
raise Stomp::Error::InvalidMessageLength unless parse_char(read_socket.getc) == "\0"
# Else reads, the rest of the message until the first \0
else
message_body += char while read_socket.ready? && (char = parse_char(read_socket.getc)) != "\0"
end
# If the buffer isn’t empty, reads the next char and returns it to the buffer
# unless it’s a \n
if read_socket.ready?
last_char = read_socket.getc
read_socket.ungetc(last_char) if parse_char(last_char) != "\n"
end
# Adds the excluded \n and \0 and tries to create a new message with it
Message.new(message_header + "\n" + message_body + "\0")
end
#end
end
end
end
end