Restart node every 1 hour?

[charyorde]

Is there a configuration or flag to restart the node process every hour?

[Tjatse]

Look at the cron_restart, app will be restarted at 01minute 01second of every hour.

  {
      "name": "NAME",
      "script": "./path/to/app.ks",
      "cron_restart": "01 01 * * * *"
    }

[charyorde]

Hmm! Thanks. Doesn't seem to work though. I actually waited for it using the time log. My processes.json looks like this:

{
  "apps" : [{
      "name"        : "app",
      "script": "./app.js",
      "watch"       : "true",
      "cron_restart": "01 01 * * * *",
      "log_date_format"  : "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z"
    }]
}

Does it work for fork_mode?

[Tjatse]

It only works in cluster_mode:

{
  "apps" : [{
      "name"        : "app",
      "script": "./app.js",
      "watch"       : true,
      "exec_mode": "cluster_mode",
      "cron_restart": "01 01 * * * *",
      "log_date_format"  : "YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm Z"
    }]
}

[jshkurti]

You can also use pm2 programmatically :

var pm2     = require('pm2');

pm2.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;

  setTimeout(function worker() {
      pm2.restart('app', function() {});
      setTimeout(worker, 60 * 60 * 1000);
    });
  }, 60 * 60 * 1000);
});

[charyorde]

Thanks

I put the above code in pm2.js and started it with pm2 start pm2.js, but I'm getting this in the logs:

app-1 (err): 2015-03-11 16:08 +02:00: events.js:72
app-1 (err):         throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
app-1 (err):               ^
app-1 (err): 2015-03-11 16:08 +02:00: Error: listen EADDRINUSE
app-1 (err):     at errnoException (net.js:905:11)
app-1 (err):     at Server._listen2 (net.js:1043:14)
app-1 (err):     at listen (net.js:1065:10)
app-1 (err):     at Server.listen (net.js:1139:5)
app-1 (err):     at EventEmitter.app.listen (/opt/node_modules/useraccountservice/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:595:24)
app-1 (err):     at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/node_modules/useraccountservice/user/application.js:161:18)
app-1 (err):     at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
app-1 (err):     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
app-1 (err):     at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
app-1 (err):     at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
app-1 (err):     at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
app-1 (err):     at require (module.js:380:17)
app-1 (err):     at Object.<anonymous> (/opt/node_modules/useraccountservice/app.js:1:80)
app-1 (err):     at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
app-1 (err):     at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
app-1 (err):     at Module.load (module.js:356:32)

I ran pm2 start pm2.js after running pm2 start processes.json. Any ideas please?

[kaven276]

cron_restart doesn't work for me too.

pid doesn't change at minites.

{
  "name": "realname",
  "cwd": "/home/test10/realname",
  "env": {
    "NODE_ENV": "test",
    "DEBUG": "noradle:*"
  },
  "exec_interpreter": "node",
  "script": ".",
  "args": [
    "8011:localhost",
    "9015"
  ],
  "log_date_format": "YYMMDD(d) HH:mm:ss:SS",
  "error_file": "/var/log/pm2/test10/realname.log",
  "out_file": "/var/log/pm2/test10/realname.log",
  "merge_logs": true,
  "max_memory_restart": "300M",
  "cron_restart": "* * * * *"
}

[charyorde]

@kaven276

This is what I ended up using:

var request = require('request');
var pm2     = require('pm2');
var config  = require('./config')()

var ping_timeout    = 3000;
var pm2_app_name    = config.appname;
var worker_interval = 600000;
var hostname        = config.uri + '/auth';

var ping_server = function(timeout, callb) {
  // Wait, let me check before you say the server is down.
  var timer = setTimeout(function() {
    callb(false);
  }, timeout);

  request(hostname, function(err, res, body) {
    clearTimeout(timer);

    if (err || res.statusCode != 200)
      return callb(false);

    console.log("Server successfully pinged at: ", new Date())
    callb(true);
  });
};


pm2.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;

  setTimeout(function worker() {
    ping_server(ping_timeout, function(ok) {
      if (!ok) {
        console.log('server down, restarting it');
        pm2.restart(pm2_app_name, function() {});
      }
      else {
        console.log('server up');
      }
      setTimeout(worker, worker_interval);
    });
  }, worker_interval);
});

Works perfectly.

[honato11]

The solution provided by @jshkurti works great but has a syntax error.

Bugfix:

var pm2 = require('pm2');

pm2.connect(function(err) {
  if (err) throw err;

  setTimeout(function worker() {
    console.log("Restarting app...");
    pm2.restart('app', function() {});
    setTimeout(worker, 1000);
  }, 1000);
});

[ncd76]

PM2 can restart an exited process automatically:

pm2 start nodeapp.js --watch

In the app exit the process every hour:

setTimeout(function(){
process.exit(0);
}, 60 * 60 * 1000);

[chanoch]

I am using node-cron to achieve this with a slightly modified version of honato11's code:

LISTENER_PROCESS_NAME=hs_listener
RESTART_LISTENER_SCHEDULE='*/10 * * * * * *'

  var pm2 = require('pm2');
  var cron = require('node-cron');

const restartListener = () => {
    pm2.connect(function(err) {
        if (err) throw err;

        pm2.restart(process.env.LISTENER_PROCESS_NAME, () => {
            pm2.disconnect()
        });
    });
}

const scheduledListenerRestart = cron.schedule(process.env.RESTART_LISTENER_SCHEDULE, () => {
    console.log('Restarting listener')
    restartListener.default()
})

scheduledListenerRestart.start()
console.log(`${new Date()} Initialised listener restart schedule`)

[MistaTwista]

pm2 3.0.0 (not tested with earlier versions) can be configured with cron_restart not only in cluster_mode, fork_mode (default value) also works for me 👍

[neurici]

crontab -e
*/60 * * * * pm2 restart app
That will restart app every hour!