On nodes with >300 cores, one interval's burst of per-hwthread metrics overran the fixed 200-slot channels. With blocking sends at every hop, sink back-pressure propagated to the collectors, the collection round exceeded the interval, and time.Ticker silently dropped the missed ticks - whole intervals were skipped without any log message. - multiChanTicker: deliver ticks non-blockingly and warn when a consumer misses a tick instead of stalling all consumers; guard the channel list with a mutex (data race with AddChannel) - collectorManager: run the collection round detached from the tick loop, skip-and-warn when a round is still running, log per-collector and per-round durations at debug level, close serial collectors on shutdown - metricRouter: buffer the interval timestamp channel and drain it before stamping, so metrics never carry the previous interval's timestamp; warn when the collector input channel is full at tick time - main: scale the inter-manager channels to max(200, 24*NumCPU), overridable with the new optional channel_buffer_size config option - add first unit tests for ticker, collector manager and router Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
MultiChanTicker
The idea of this ticker is to multiply the output channels. The original Golang time.Ticker provides only a single output channel, so the signal can only be received by a single other class. This ticker allows to add multiple channels which get all notified about the time tick.
type MultiChanTicker interface {
Init(duration time.Duration)
AddChannel(chan time.Time)
}
The MultiChanTicker is created similarly to the common time.Ticker:
NewTicker(duration time.Duration) MultiChanTicker
Afterwards, you can add channels:
t := MultiChanTicker(duration)
c1 := make(chan time.Time, 1)
c2 := make(chan time.Time, 1)
t.AddChannel(c1)
t.AddChannel(c2)
for {
select {
case t1 := <- c1:
log.Print(t1)
case t2 := <- c2:
log.Print(t2)
}
}
The result should be the same time.Time output in both channels, notified "simultaneously".
Ticks are delivered with a non-blocking send: a consumer that has not yet read the previous tick does not stall the ticker (which would silently drop time.Ticker fires for all consumers); instead, the tick for that consumer is skipped and a warning is logged. Register buffered channels (capacity 1) so a consumer that is briefly busy at tick time does not lose the tick.