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Show backtrace for all Sidekiq threads

Thomas Eisenbarth
December 11, 2014Software engineer at makandra GmbH

It might happen that your Sidekiq queue gets stuck, hanging at 0% CPU load.

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When we inspected the process using strace we saw a blocking select system call.

You can get backtraces for each thread Show archive.org snapshot by sending the TTIN signal to the Sidekiq process like this:

kill -TTIN $process_id
Posted by Thomas Eisenbarth to makandra dev (2014-12-11 17:21)