1st question:
In Node.js cluster, I know that if a cluster worker is crashed or got kill, it will auto boot up again with a new instance. But what if when master process got kill, how do we make master process auto boot up again if it got killed or crashed? I tried to kill master process and the entire cluster is killed as well. Is there anyway to prevent this?
if (cluster.isMaster) {
require('os').cpus().forEach(function () {
cluster.fork();
});
cluster.on('exit', function (worker, code, signal) {
cluster.fork();
});
} else if (cluster.isWorker) {
...
}
2nd question:
I figured we can find the master process from process.pid. But without this info from Node.js and looking at the output of pgrep -l node, how do I figure out which one is master process id? Is there anyway that I can tag or name the processes when I fork() it so I can find master process in pgrep command?
$ pgrep -l node
1420 node
1419 node
1418 node
1417 node
1416 node
1415 node
1414 node
1413 node
1412 node
UPDATED
After I apply process.title as @fardjad has suggested below, it works beautifully. Here is the results of pgrep:
$ pgrep -fl acl
1994 acl_api_worker_8 USER=nam
1993 acl_api_worker_7 USER=nam
1992 acl_api_worker_6 USER=nam
1991 acl_api_worker_5 USER=nam
1990 acl_api_worker_4 USER=nam
1989 acl_api_worker_3 USER=nam
1988 acl_api_worker_2 USER=nam
1987 acl_api_worker_1 USER=nam
1986 acl_api_master SHELL=/bin/bash