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This change makes syntect_server resilient to the two classes of problems we've
seen in production usage of it:

1. Some specific language grammar/file pairs can cause syntect to panic
   internally. This is usually because syntect doesn't implement a specific
   sublime-syntax feature in some way and it [panics instead of returning
   result types](trishume/syntect#98).

2. Much rarer, some specific language/grammar file pairs can cause syntect to
   get stuck in an infinite loop internally -- never to return and consuming an
   entire CPU core until it is restarted manually.

Previously we tried to solve #1 through stack unwinding (c5773da), but since
the 2nd issue above also appeared it proved to not be sufficient on its own.
It is still useful, though, because it can do per-request recovery of the first
failure scenario above and as such it will be added back in.

Even without stack unwinding, http-server-stabilizer helps both cases above by
running and monitoring replicas of syntect_server. See the README in
https://github.com/slimsag/http-server-stabilizer for details.

It is important to note that all this does is stop these individual file
failures from harming other requests to syntect_server. They are still issues
on their own, and logging and Prometheus monitoring is now in place for us to
identify when this is occurring and in which file it occurred so we can track
down the issue and make small reproduction cases to file and fix upstream.

Since only one instance of syntect_server was previously running and we now run
multiple, more memory is needed. Each instance requires about 1.1 GB at peak
(depending on which languages are used). The default is now to run 4 workers,
so 4.4 GB is the minimum required and 6 GB is suggested. In the event only one
worker is ran (via setting the env var `WORKERS=1`), stability is still greatly
improved since the 2nd failure case above can only last a short period of time
instead of until the container is restarted manually.

Part of sourcegraph/sourcegraph#5406
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Expand Up @@ -18,19 +18,29 @@ WORKDIR /repo
RUN env 'CC_x86_64-unknown-linux-musl=musl-gcc' cargo rustc --release --target x86_64-unknown-linux-musl -- -C 'linker=musl-gcc'
RUN cp ./target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/syntect_server /syntect_server

################################
# Build http-server-stabilizer #
################################
FROM golang:1.13.1-alpine@sha256:2293e952c79b8b3a987e1e09d48b6aa403d703cef9a8fa316d30ba2918d37367 as hss

RUN apk add --no-cache git=2.22.0-r0
RUN git clone https://github.com/slimsag/http-server-stabilizer /repo
WORKDIR /repo
RUN git checkout v1.0.0 && go build -o /http-server-stabilizer .

#######################
# Compile final image #
#######################
FROM sourcegraph/alpine:3.9@sha256:e9264d4748e16de961a2b973cc12259dee1d33473633beccb1dfb8a0e62c6459
COPY --from=ss syntect_server /
COPY --from=hss http-server-stabilizer /

# Use tini (https://github.com/krallin/tini) for proper signal handling.
RUN apk add --no-cache tini=0.18.0-r0
ENTRYPOINT ["/sbin/tini", "--"]

EXPOSE 9238
ENV ROCKET_ENV "production"
ENV ROCKET_PORT 9238
ENV ROCKET_LIMITS "{json=10485760}"

# syntect_server does not need a secret key since it uses no cookies, but
Expand All @@ -46,4 +56,11 @@ ENV ROCKET_SECRET_KEY "+SecretKeyIsIrrelevantAndUnusedPleaseIgnore="
# what we observed when this was enabled with the default 5s.
ENV ROCKET_KEEP_ALIVE=0

CMD ["/syntect_server"]
# The more workers, the more resilient syntect_server is to getting stuck on
# bad grammar/file combinations. If it happens with four workers, only 1/4th of
# requests will be affected for a short period of time. Each worker can require
# at peak around 1.1 GiB of memory.
ENV WORKERS=4

ENV QUIET=true
CMD ["sh", "-c", "/http-server-stabilizer -listen=:9238 -prometheus-app-name=syntect_server -workers=$WORKERS -- env ROCKET_PORT={{.Port}} /syntect_server"]

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