subtleGradient comments on Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally

"Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally": comment by Thomas Aylott

Thu, 1 Dec 2005 05:17:24 PST

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?

"Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally": comment by topfunky

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 21:41:17 PST

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.

"Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally": comment by Thomas Aylott

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:16:32 PST

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.

"Dreamhost FastCGI Production mode, Finally" by admin

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:03:13 PST

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.