[erlang-questions] ei_connect fails sometimes with EIO

[Wei Cao]

I had similar problems before, when I read user information inside mnesia
database
times to times from a proxy written in C. Each time, I acquire a connection
via ei_connect()
and close it after user info is read.

After tracing, I found the reason to my problem, erl_connect use select()
internally,
when fd is larger than 1024, the fd_set structure on stack gets corrupted,
and the process
behavior becomes undetermined.

I post the patch here:
https://github.com/weicao/otp/tree/erl_interface_replace_select_with_poll

Hope it solves your problem too.

2011/11/26 Andre Nathan <andre@REDACTED>

> Hello
>
> I have a C node doing RPC on my Erlang cluster. From time to time I get
> Input/Output errors from ei_connect.
>
> I've found this thread which reports something similar, but apparently
> no solution was found:
>
>  http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-July/027711.html
>
> Since EIO is a kind of "generic error" in erl_interface, I was wondering
> if there is anything else I can do to try to find what's happening.
>
> One thing that I thought could be the cause of the problem is that I'm
> running the Erlang cluster with inet_dist_listen_min =
> inet_dist_listen_max = 9100; while I've had no problems with the Erlang
> cluster itself, I figured that maybe I was limiting its ability to
> handle concurrent connections by using a single port. However, changing
> inet_dist_listen_max to 9110 didn't solve the problem, so I guess it's
> something else.
>
> Does anyone have any idea about this?
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>
>
>
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Best,

Wei Cao
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