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Gemfile

@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ gem "manageiq-api-client",            "~>0.1.0",       :require => false
 gem "manageiq-network_discovery",     "~>0.1.2",       :require => false
 gem "mime-types",                     "~>2.6.1",       :path => "mime-types-redirector"
 gem "more_core_extensions",           "~>3.3"
-gem "nakayoshi_fork",                 "~>0.0.3"  # provides a more CoW friendly fork (GC a few times before fork)
 gem "net-ldap",                       "~>0.14.0",      :require => false
 gem "net-ping",                       "~>1.7.4",       :require => false
 gem "net-ssh",                        "=3.2.0",        :require => false

app/models/miq_worker.rb

@@ -304,29 +304,6 @@ def send_message_to_worker_monitor(message, *args)
     )
   end
 
-  def self.before_fork
-    preload_for_worker_role if respond_to?(:preload_for_worker_role)
-  end
-
-  def self.after_fork
-    close_pg_sockets_inherited_from_parent
-    DRb.stop_service
-    renice(Process.pid)
-  end
-
-  # When we fork, the children inherits the parent's file descriptors
-  # so we need to close any inherited raw pg sockets in the child.
-  def self.close_pg_sockets_inherited_from_parent
-    owner_to_pool = ActiveRecord::Base.connection_handler.instance_variable_get(:@owner_to_pool)
-    owner_to_pool[Process.ppid].values.compact.each do |pool|
-      pool.connections.each do |conn|
-        socket = conn.raw_connection.socket
-        _log.info("Closing socket: #{socket}")
-        IO.for_fd(socket).close
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
   # Overriding queue_name as now some queue names can be
   # arrays of names for some workers not just a singular name.
   # We use JSON.parse as the array of names is stored as a string.
@@ -339,26 +316,6 @@ def queue_name
     end
   end
 
-  def start_runner
-    if ENV['MIQ_SPAWN_WORKERS'] || !Process.respond_to?(:fork)
-      start_runner_via_spawn
-    else
-      start_runner_via_fork
-    end
-  end
-
-  def start_runner_via_fork
-    self.class.before_fork
-    pid = fork(:cow_friendly => true) do
-      self.class.after_fork
-      self.class::Runner.start_worker(worker_options)
-      exit!
-    end
-
-    Process.detach(pid)
-    pid
-  end
-
   def self.build_command_line(guid)
     command_line = "#{Gem.ruby} #{runner_script} --heartbeat --guid=#{guid} #{name}"
     ENV['APPLIANCE'] ? "nice #{nice_increment} #{command_line}" : command_line
@@ -370,7 +327,7 @@ def self.runner_script
     script
   end
 
-  def start_runner_via_spawn
+  def start_runner
     pid = Kernel.spawn(self.class.build_command_line(guid), [:out, :err] => [Rails.root.join("log", "evm.log"), "a"])
     Process.detach(pid)
     pid

lib/workers/bin/run_single_worker.rb

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 require File.expand_path("../../../config/environment", __dir__)
 
 worker_class = worker_class.constantize
-worker_class.before_fork
+worker_class.preload_for_worker_role if worker_class.respond_to?(:preload_for_worker_role)
 unless options[:dry_run]
   create_options = {:pid => Process.pid}
   runner_options = {}