kubernetesrustrust-tokiorancherrust-rocket

Weird issue with running thread::sleep in a loop in kubernetes

I am only able to reproduce this issue in my rancher kubernetes cloud. Locally it runs fine. However, if I spawn a new thread which calls sleep in a loop. Rocket will hang and I don't know why.

tokio::spawn(async move {
  loop {
    thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1));
  }
});

This makes it really hard to know run some function every x seconds.

Solution

  • using tokio::time::sleep instead as explained by @aleksander-krauze in the comments fixed the issue.