FIX: Unicorn master and Sidekiq reopening logs at the same time (#29137)

In our production environment, we have been seeing Sidekiq processes
getting stuck randomly when a USR1 signal is sent to the Unicorn master
process. We have not been able to identify the root cause of why the
Sidekiq process gets stuck. We however noticed that when the Unicorn
master process receives a USR1 signal, it will reopen the logs for the
Unicorn master process first before sending a USR1 signal for the
Unicorn worker processes to reopen the logs. We figured that we should
do the same for the Sidekiq process as well when a USR1 signal.

In this commit, we introduce an arbitrary delay of 1 second before we
the Sidekiq process reopens its log files so as to allow enough time for the Unicorn
master to finish reopening it logs first.

We also do not send reopen logs for the Sidekiq process if the `DISCOURSE_LOG_SIDEKIQ`
env is not present because there is no need to reopen any logs.

app/jobs/base.rb

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ module Jobs
       end
 
       def enabled?
-        ENV["DISCOURSE_LOG_SIDEKIQ"] == "1"
+        Discourse.enable_sidekiq_logging?
       end
 
       def live_slots_limit

config/unicorn.conf.rb

@@ -89,13 +89,22 @@ before_fork do |server, worker|
       Demon::Sidekiq.after_fork { DiscourseEvent.trigger(:sidekiq_fork_started) }
       Demon::Sidekiq.start(sidekiqs, logger: server.logger)
 
-      # Trap USR1, so we can re-issue to sidekiq workers
+      if Discourse.enable_sidekiq_logging?
-      # but chain the default unicorn implementation as well
+        # Trap USR1, so we can re-issue to sidekiq workers
-      old_handler =
+        # but chain the default unicorn implementation as well
-        Signal.trap("USR1") do
+        old_handler =
-          Demon::Sidekiq.kill("USR1")
+          Signal.trap("USR1") do
-          old_handler.call
+            old_handler.call
-        end
+
+            # We have seen Sidekiq processes getting stuck in production sporadically when log rotation happens.
+            # The cause is currently unknown but we suspect that it is related to the Unicorn master process and
+            # Sidekiq demon processes reopening logs at the same time as we noticed that Unicorn worker processes only
+            # reopen logs after the Unicorn master process is done. To workaround the problem, we are adding an arbitrary
+            # delay of 1 second to Sidekiq's log reopeing procedure. The 1 second delay should be
+            # more than enough for the Unicorn master process to finish reopening logs.
+            Demon::Sidekiq.kill("USR2")
+          end
+      end
     end
 
     if ENV["DISCOURSE_ENABLE_EMAIL_SYNC_DEMON"] == "true"

lib/demon/sidekiq.rb

@@ -34,19 +34,11 @@ class Demon::Sidekiq < ::Demon::Base
     cli = Sidekiq::CLI.instance
 
     # Unicorn uses USR1 to indicate that log files have been rotated
-    Signal.trap("USR1") do
+    Signal.trap("USR1") { reopen_logs }
-      begin
-        log_in_trap("Sidekiq reopening logs...")
-        Unicorn::Util.reopen_logs
-        log_in_trap("Sidekiq done reopening logs...")
-      rescue => error
-        log_in_trap(
-          "Error encountered while reopening logs: [#{error.class}] #{error.message}\n#{error.backtrace.join("\n")}",
-          level: :error,
-        )
 
-        exit 1
+    Signal.trap("USR2") do
-      end
+      sleep 1
+      reopen_logs
     end
 
     options = ["-c", GlobalSetting.sidekiq_workers.to_s]
@@ -75,4 +67,21 @@ class Demon::Sidekiq < ::Demon::Base
 
     exit 1
   end
+
+  private
+
+  def reopen_logs
+    begin
+      log_in_trap("Sidekiq reopening logs...")
+      Unicorn::Util.reopen_logs
+      log_in_trap("Sidekiq done reopening logs...")
+    rescue => error
+      log_in_trap(
+        "Error encountered while reopening logs: [#{error.class}] #{error.message}\n#{error.backtrace.join("\n")}",
+        level: :error,
+      )
+
+      exit 1
+    end
+  end
 end

lib/discourse.rb

@@ -1223,4 +1223,8 @@ module Discourse
       ) if SiteSetting.set_locale_from_accept_language_header
     locale
   end
+
+  def self.enable_sidekiq_logging?
+    ENV["DISCOURSE_LOG_SIDEKIQ"] == "1"
+  end
 end