@gpolakow/native-watchdog

Watchdog node module

Kills the current process when the JavaScript event loop is busy for more than a configurable amount of time. e.g. an accidental while true loop.

This is implemented by launching a separate thread from C++ which periodically checks if an interval timer installed in the JavaScript event loop is fired.

Note: The node module does not distinguish a never-completing operation from a long running operation that will eventually complete. If the event loop appears to be stuck and does not fire timers for a configurable period of time, the node module will terminate the process.

Installing

npm install native-watchdog

Using

var watchdog = require('native-watchdog');

// Configures the module to kill the current process if the event loop
// is unresponsive for more than 5s.
watchdog.start(5000);

The module will print to stderr the JavaScript call stack at the time it detected the JavaScript event loop to be unresponsive and will exit the process with code 87 (unused by node.js):

The module native-watchdog has detected that the event loop is unresponsive.
Here is the JavaScript stack trace:
======================================native-watchdog======================================
bad (/Users/alex/src/node-native-watchdog/test/test.js:16:13)
good (/Users/alex/src/node-native-watchdog/test/test.js:21:5)
Timeout._onTimeout (/Users/alex/src/node-native-watchdog/test/test.js:24:5)
ontimeout (timers.js:386:14)
tryOnTimeout (timers.js:250:5)
Timer.listOnTimeout (timers.js:214:5)
======================================native-watchdog======================================
The module native-watchdog will now terminate the process with exit code 87.

Developing

• npm install -g node-gyp
• node-gyp configure
• node-gyp build (for debugging use node-gyp build --debug)
• npm test (for debugging change index.js to load the node module from the Debug folder and press F5)

Contributing

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License

MIT