Revised oomparser to not use all the cpu

manager/manager.go

@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ func (self *manager) Start() error {
 		return err
 	}
 	self.quitChannels = append(self.quitChannels, quitWatcher)
-	// err = self.watchForNewOoms()
+	err = self.watchForNewOoms()
-	// if err != nil {
+	if err != nil {
-	// 	glog.Errorf("Failed to start OOM watcher, will not get OOM events: %v", err)
+		glog.Errorf("Failed to start OOM watcher, will not get OOM events: %v", err)
-	// }
+	}
 
 	// Look for new containers in the main housekeeping thread.
 	quitGlobalHousekeeping := make(chan error)

utils/oomparser/oomparser.go

@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ func getProcessNamePid(line string, currentOomInstance *OomInstance) (bool, erro
 }
 
 // uses regex to see if line is the start of a kernel oom log
-func checkIfStartOfOomMessages(line string) (bool, error) {
+func checkIfStartOfOomMessages(line string) bool {
 	potential_oom_start := firstLineRegexp.MatchString(line)
 	if potential_oom_start {
-		return true, nil
+		return true
 	}
-	return false, nil
+	return false
 }
 
 // opens a reader to grab new messages from the Reader object called outPipe
@@ -104,15 +104,14 @@ func checkIfStartOfOomMessages(line string) (bool, error) {
 // lines are checked against a regexp to check for the pid, process name, etc.
 // At the end of an oom message group, AnalyzeLines adds the new oomInstance to
 // oomLog
-func (self *OomParser) analyzeLines(outPipe io.ReadCloser, outStream chan *OomInstance) {
+func (self *OomParser) analyzeLines(ioreader *bufio.Reader, outStream chan *OomInstance) {
-	ioreader := bufio.NewReader(outPipe)
+	var line string
-	line, err := ioreader.ReadString('\n')
+	var err error
-	for err == nil {
+	for true {
-		in_oom_kernel_log, err := checkIfStartOfOomMessages(line)
+		for line, err = ioreader.ReadString('\n'); err != nil && err == io.EOF; {
-		if err != nil {
+			time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
-			glog.Errorf("%v", err)
-			continue
 		}
+		in_oom_kernel_log := checkIfStartOfOomMessages(line)
 		if in_oom_kernel_log {
 			oomCurrentInstance := &OomInstance{
 				ContainerName: "/",
@@ -132,9 +131,7 @@ func (self *OomParser) analyzeLines(outPipe io.ReadCloser, outStream chan *OomIn
 			in_oom_kernel_log = false
 			outStream <- oomCurrentInstance
 		}
-		line, err = ioreader.ReadString('\n')
 	}
-	glog.Errorf("%v", err)
 }
 
 // looks for system files that contain kernel messages and if one is found, sets
@@ -162,8 +159,11 @@ func (self *OomParser) StreamOoms(outStream chan *OomInstance) error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
+	ioreader := bufio.NewReader(file)
+
+	// Process the events received from the kernel.
 	go func() {
-		self.analyzeLines(file, outStream)
+		self.analyzeLines(ioreader, outStream)
 	}()
 	return nil
 }

utils/oomparser/oomparser_test.go

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 package oomparser
 
 import (
+	"bufio"
 	"os"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -105,18 +106,11 @@ func TestGetProcessNamePid(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestCheckIfStartOfMessages(t *testing.T) {
-	couldParseLine, err := checkIfStartOfOomMessages(endLine)
+	couldParseLine := checkIfStartOfOomMessages(endLine)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("bad line fed to checkIfStartOfMessages should yield no error, but had error %v", err)
-	}
 	if couldParseLine {
 		t.Errorf("bad line fed to checkIfStartOfMessages should return false but returned %v", couldParseLine)
 	}
-
+	couldParseLine = checkIfStartOfOomMessages(startLine)
-	couldParseLine, err = checkIfStartOfOomMessages(startLine)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Errorf("start line fed to checkIfStartOfMessages should yield no error, but had error %v", err)
-	}
 	if !couldParseLine {
 		t.Errorf("start line fed to checkIfStartOfMessages should return true but returned %v", couldParseLine)
 	}
@@ -140,12 +134,13 @@ func helpTestAnalyzeLines(oomCheckInstance *OomInstance, sysFile string, t *test
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Errorf("couldn't open test log: %v", err)
 	}
+	ioreader := bufio.NewReader(file)
 	timeout := make(chan bool, 1)
 	go func() {
 		time.Sleep(1 * time.Second)
 		timeout <- true
 	}()
-	go oomLog.analyzeLines(file, outStream)
+	go oomLog.analyzeLines(ioreader, outStream)
 	select {
 	case oomInstance := <-outStream:
 		if *oomCheckInstance != *oomInstance {