Vue Community · Help: Vue fails to start intermittently in containers, logs inside

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Vr/vue·posted by nikic·3 hours agoTooling

Help: Vue fails to start intermittently in containers, logs inside

Most Vue articles stop at "how to use it" and never cover "when not to use it". This is an attempt at the second half.

# Load test: do not jump straight to the max concurrency.
# Ramp it up, otherwise you miss the knee.
for c in 50 100 200 400 800; do
  wrk -t8 -c$c -d60s --latency http://127.0.0.1:8080/api/feed
  sleep 20
done

We also fixed monitoring along the way: replaced average-based alerts with percentiles and split them per endpoint. False alerts dropped by about seventy percent and the on-call rotation visibly cheered up.

Worth noting: the official docs do cover this, just in a very inconspicuous spot. I only found it reading the source comments, where the author explains the reasoning — roughly "so that it degrades into predictable behaviour in extreme cases".

One last trap: in container environments remember to adjust the memory-related parameters in step. Otherwise the host limit and the process expectation disagree, and the symptom is intermittent, unreproducible failure.

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6 comments

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Hhuang_keMod·just now

There is actually a simpler fix that needs no architecture change: move this check up to the gateway and the problem disappears. The cost is one extra lookup at the gateway.

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Rrase·3 minutes ago

We have run this in production for two years without hitting it. That said, we never reached this scale, so our experience is not really evidence here.

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WwinterMod·2 hours ago

One counter-example: below Vue 7.4 the semantics of that code are different, so do not copy it verbatim. We got burned in staging and rolled back once.

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Nnikic·just now

I just read the Vue source — the author actually explains the reasoning in a comment, roughly "so that it degrades into predictable behaviour in extreme cases".

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Lli_ming·3 minutes ago

Worth learning from this debugging approach. We went straight at the logs and took a much longer route.

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Mmike_xu·3 minutes ago

A question: what changes in a container with a 512Mi memory limit? That is how we run it in production.

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