improvements suggested by ekim

backfiller/backfiller/main.py

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ segments_backfilled = prom.Counter(
 
 
 HOUR_FMT = '%Y-%m-%dT%H'
-TIMEOUT = 5 #default timeout in seconds for remote requests 
+TIMEOUT = 5 #default timeout in seconds for remote requests or exceptions 
+MAX_RETRIES = 4 #number of times to retry before stopping worker or manager
 
 
 def list_local_segments(base_dir, stream, variant, hour):
@@ -122,7 +123,6 @@ def list_hours(node, stream, variants, start=None):
 	hours = list(set().union(*hour_lists))
 	hours.sort(reverse=True) #latest hour first
 
-
 	if start is not None:
 		if not isinstance(start, datetime.datetime):
 			start = datetime.datetime.utcnow() - datetime.timedelta(hours=start)
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 	def start_worker(self, node):
 		"""Start a new worker for given node."""
 		if self.stopping.is_set():
-			logging.debug("Refusing to create new worker because we're stopping")
+			logging.debug('Refusing to create new workers because we are stopping')
 			return
 		worker = BackfillerWorker(self, node)
 		assert node not in self.workers, "Tried to start worker for node {!r} that already has one".format(node)
@@ -181,9 +181,27 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 		self.workers.pop(node).stop()
 
 	def run(self):
+		"""Stop and start workers based on results of get_nodes.
+		
+		Regularly call get_nodes. Nodes returned by get_nodes not currently
+		running are started and currently running nodes not returned by
+		get_nodes are stopped. If self.run_once, only call nodes once. Calling
+		stop will exit the loop."""
 		self.logger.info('Starting')
+		failures = 0
+
 		while not self.stopping.is_set():
+			try:
 				new_nodes = set(self.get_nodes())
+			except Exception:
+				failures += 1
+				if failures > MAX_RETRIES:
+					self.logger.exception('Maximum number of failures ({}) exceed.'.format(MAX_RETRIES))
+					break
+				delay = common.jitter(TIMEOUT * 2**failures)
+				self.logger.exception('Getting nodes failed. Retrying in {:.0f} s'.format(delay))
+				self.stopping.wait(delay)
+				continue
 			exisiting_nodes = set(self.workers.keys())
 			to_start = new_nodes - exisiting_nodes
 			for node in to_start:
@@ -191,12 +209,13 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 			to_stop = exisiting_nodes - new_nodes
 			for node in to_stop:
 				self.stop_worker(node)
-
+			failures = 0 #reset failures on success
 			if self.run_once:
 				break
 
 			self.stopping.wait(common.jitter(self.NODE_INTERVAL))
 
+		#wait for all workers to finish
 		for worker in self.workers.values():
 			worker.done.wait()
 
@@ -207,27 +226,25 @@ class BackfillerManager(object):
 		
 		If only has a URL, infer name from the hostname of the URL"""
 
-		nodes = {urlparse.urlparse(node).hostname:node for nodes in self.static_nodes}
+		nodes = {urlparse.urlparse(node).hostname:node for node in self.static_nodes}
 		
 		if self.node_file is not None:
 			self.logger.info('Fetching list of nodes from {}'.format(self.node_file))
-			try:
 			with open(self.node_file) as f:
 				for line in f.readlines():
 					substrs = line.split()
 					if not len(line) or substrs[0][0] == '#':
 						continue
 					elif len(substrs) == 1:
-							nodes[urlparse.urlparse(substr[0]).hostname] = substr[0]
+						nodes[urlparse.urlparse(substrs[0]).hostname] = substrs[0]
 					else:
 						nodes[substrs[0]] = substrs[1]
 
 		if self.node_database is not None:
 			self.logger.info('Fetching list of nodes from {}'.format(self.node_database))
-			# query the database
+			# TODO query the database
 
 		nodes.pop(self.localhost, None)
-
 		return nodes.values()
 
 class BackfillerWorker(object):
@@ -237,8 +254,6 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 	base_dir/stream for all variants. If run_once, only backfill once.""" 
 
 	WAIT_INTERVAL = 120 #seconds between backfills
-	RETRY_INTERVAL = 5 #seconds between retrying a failed backfill
-	MAX_RETRIES = 4 #number of times to retry before stopping worker 
 
 	def __init__(self, manager, node):
 		self.manager = manager
@@ -299,7 +314,8 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 						self.logger.warning('File {} invaid: {}'.format(path, e))
 						continue
 	
-					#to avoid getting in the downloader's way ignore segments less than recent_cutoff old
+					# to avoid getting in the downloader's way ignore segments
+					# less than recent_cutoff old
 					if datetime.datetime.utcnow() - segment.start < datetime.timedelta(seconds=recent_cutoff):
 						self.logger.debug('Skipping {} as too recent'.format(path))
 						continue
@@ -322,9 +338,9 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 			except Exception:
 				failures += 1
 				if failures > MAX_RETRIES:
-					self.logger.exception('Maximum number of failures ({}) exceed.'.format(MAX_RETRIES)
+					self.logger.exception('Maximum number of failures ({}) exceed.'.format(MAX_RETRIES))
 					break
-				delay = common.jitter(self.RETRY_INTERVAL * 2**self.failures)
+				delay = common.jitter(TIMEOUT * 2**failures)
 				self.logger.exception('Backfill failed. Retrying in {:.0f} s'.format(delay))
 				self.stopping.wait(delay)
 
@@ -337,16 +353,16 @@ class BackfillerWorker(object):
 			del self.manager.workers[self.node]
 
 @argh.arg("streams", nargs="*")
-@argh.arg('--base-dir', 'Directory to which segments will be backfilled. Default is current working directory.')
-@argh.arg('--variants', "Variants of each stream to backfill. Comma seperated if multiple. Default is 'source'.")
-@argh.arg('--metrics-port', 'Port for Prometheus stats. Default is 8002.')
-@argh.arg('--static-nodes', 'Nodes to always backfill from. Comma seperated if multiple. By default empty.')
-@argh.arg('--backdoor_port' 'Port for gevent.backdoor access. By default disabled.')
-@argh.arg('--start', 'If a datetime only backfill hours after that datetime. If a number, bacfill hours more recent than that number of hours ago. If None (default), all hours are backfilled.')
-@argh.arg('--run_once', 'If True, backfill only once. By default False.')
-@argh.arg('--node_file', "Name of file listing nodes to backfill from. One node per line in the form NAME URI with whitespace only lines or lines starting with '#' ignored. If None (default) do not get nodes from a file.")
-@argh.arg('--node_database', 'Address of database node to fetch a list of nodes from. If None (default) do not get nodes from database.')
-@argh.arg('--localhost', 'Name of local machine. Used to prevent backfilling from itself. By default the result of socket.gethostname()'
+@argh.arg('--base-dir', help='Directory to which segments will be backfilled. Default is current working directory.')
+@argh.arg('--variants', help="Variants of each stream to backfill. Comma seperated if multiple. Default is 'source'.")
+@argh.arg('--metrics-port', help='Port for Prometheus stats. Default is 8002.')
+@argh.arg('--static-nodes', help='Nodes to always backfill from. Comma seperated if multiple. By default empty.')
+@argh.arg('--backdoor-port', help='Port for gevent.backdoor access. By default disabled.')
+@argh.arg('--start', help='If a datetime only backfill hours after that datetime. If a number, bacfill hours more recent than that number of hours ago. If None (default), all hours are backfilled.')
+@argh.arg('--run-once', help='If True, backfill only once. By default False.')
+@argh.arg('--node-file', help="Name of file listing nodes to backfill from. One node per line in the form NAME URI with whitespace only lines or lines starting with '#' ignored. If None (default) do not get nodes from a file.")
+@argh.arg('--node-database', help='Address of database node to fetch a list of nodes from. If None (default) do not get nodes from database.')
+@argh.arg('--localhost', help='Name of local machine. Used to prevent backfilling from itself. By default the result of socket.gethostname()')
 def main(streams, base_dir='.', variants='source', metrics_port=8002,
 	static_nodes='', backdoor_port=0, start=None, run_once=False,
 	node_file=None, node_database=None, localhost=socket.gethostname()):

docker-compose.jsonnet

@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@
       image: "quay.io/ekimekim/wubloader-backfiller:%s" % $.image_tag,
       // Args for the backfiller: set channel and qualities
       command: [
-        "--stream", $.channel,
-        "-v", std.join(",", $.qualities),
+        $.channel,
+        "--variants", std.join(",", $.qualities),
         "--static-nodes", std.join(",", $.peers),
         "--backdoor-port", std.toString($.backdoor_port),
       ],