Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally

by Thomas Aylott Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:03:13 GMT

I had hacked my environment.rb file to force it into development mode while working on my theme.

I have just switched back to the normal version of the file. Dreamhost defaults Ruby on Rails to production mode now. So, this site should be relitively zippy now.

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  1. i’d thought i’d switched back to production mode before. But, It looks like I’d done something wrong. Switching back to the original file fixed it.

    I had been really ticked off at Dreamhost for being so danged slow but it looks like that was all my fault.

    It does seem 1000% faster to me now.

    Thomas Aylott 13 minutes

  2. My recommendation: setup a cron job to kill your dispatch.fcgi’s regularly (hourly or daily).

    It keeps everything fresh and running smoothly for me at Dreamhost.

    topfunky about 19 hours

  3. Whenever I assassinate them, they always seem to make the site completely unresponsive for a few minutes in their final death throws.

    I’m going to do it daily at least and see how it goes.

    Then maybe i’ll switch it to hourly, depending on traffic i suppose.

    Do you think this is an inherent problem of running RoR apps using Apache FCGI in dynamic mode? Would a lighttpd server help?

    Thomas Aylott 1 day