I've also been bitten by the malformed JSON string error.
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 12:13 PM Philippe Blouin <
philippe.blo...@inlibro.com> wrote:
> Howdy!
>
> Since moving a lot of our users to 22.05.06, we've installed the worker
> everywhere. But the number of issues encountered is staggering.
>
> The first one was
>
> Can't call method "process" on an undefined value
>
> where the id received from MQ was not found in the DB, and the process is
> going straight to process_job and failing. Absolutely no idea how that
> occurs, seems completely counterintuitive (the ID comes from the DB after
> all), but here it is. Hacked the code to add a "sleep 1" to fix most of
> that one.
>
> Then came the fact that stored events were not checked if the connection
> to MQ was successful at startup. Bug 30654 refers it. Hacked a little
> "$init" in there to clear that up at startup.
>
> Then came the
>
> malformed UTF-8 character in JSON string, at character offset 296 (before
> "\x{e9}serv\x{e9} au ...")
>
> at decode_json that crashes the whole process. And for some reason, it
> never gets over it, gets the same problem at every restart, like the event
> is never "eaten" from the queue. Hacked an eval then a try-catch over it...
>
> After coding a monitor to alert when a background_jobs has been "new" over
> 5 minutes in the DB, I was inundated by messages. There's alway one
> elasticsearch_update that escapes among the flurry, and they slowly add up.
>
> At this point, the only viable solution is to run the workers but disable
> RabbitMQ everywhere. Are we really the only ones experiencing that?
>
> Regards,
>
> PS Our servers are well-above-average Debian 11 machines with lot of
> firepower (ram, cpu, i/o...).
> --
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>
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