--reload = Runs the reloader with inotify if available and falls back on
FS polling.
--reload=inotify = Forces the reloader to run with inotify
--reload=poll = Forces the reloader to use FS polling
Currently, '--reload' uses FS polling to find out when files have
changed. For some time, the Linux kernel has had a feature called
inotify that allows applications to monitor for FS events without
polling.
This commit adds a new 'use-inotify' configuration option that will
cause gunicorn to use the new 'InotifyReloader' instead of the default
'Reloader' when 'reload' is enabled.
Using inotify can result in lower CPU consumption by gunicorn especially
when working with virtualized filesystems or environments with a large
number of watched files / directories.
Here's the reproducer in Python 3.3:
$ gunicorn --paste paste.ini --reload
Then I got the following exception:
Exception in thread Thread-1:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/threading.py", line 901, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/home/berker/hacking/mediagoblin/venv3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/gunicorn/reloader.py", line 41, in run
for filename in self.get_files():
File "/home/berker/hacking/mediagoblin/venv3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/gunicorn/reloader.py", line 29, in get_files
for module in sys.modules.values()
File "/home/berker/hacking/mediagoblin/venv3/lib/python3.3/site-packages/gunicorn/reloader.py", line 28, in <listcomp>
re.sub('py[co]$', 'py', module.__file__)
RuntimeError: dictionary changed size during iteration
