Use phridge for phantomjs integration

[alx]

I've had issues with phantomjs processes that were not killed after being used, this bridge etween node and phantomjs might help to mitigate this issue :

https://github.com/peerigon/phridge

[qq99]

I've seen this too, and needed to do pkill phantomjs every once in a while I'll see what I can do to fix this up a bit

[qq99]

Interestingly, this says that you can put a timeout on the process http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_spawn_command_args_options

We have a 30*1000 ms timeout in place (https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus/blob/master/src/server/ChatServer.coffee#L278), already, and yet somehow it stays around! Default is apparently SIGTERM, and pkill also sends SIGTERM by default. Latter works, former does not

[qq99]

Annnd it seems the reason why might be the node version. Which are you using @alx ? node v0.10.9 doesn't seem to support timeout in the options for spawn. I'll look into mentioning the recommended version of node in the docs/INSTALL.md

http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.10.9/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_spawn_command_args_options

[alx]

Hi qq99,

thanks for your reply concerning this issue.

The box running chat.tetalab.org is using node v0.10.10

Have a nice day,

Alex

[qq99]

Seems 0.10.10 also doesn't have timeout as an option for spawn, I think the latest node may be stable, so I might try deploying that sometime soon

[alx]

Thanks, I'll update to v0.10.29 tomorrow and let you know if the timeout feature is working fine.

[qq99]

Closing for now unless it continues to be a problem