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Re: [Mongrel] Mongrel service keeps re-starting ruby

Jonathan Rochkind
Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:11:02 -0700

Are you using Rails 2.2? The latest version of mongrel available by gem is broken with --prefix and Rails 2.2. I'd still expect it to simply report an error instead of consuming all CPU, so that's odd (but I've never developed Rails on Windows before either).
But if you are using Rails 2.2 that could still be it, since I too have discovered that you can't use --prefix with a Rails 2.2 app, without either patching mongrel or patching your rails app. (I find patching the Rails app to be easier and less scary, and can tell you how I've done it if this is indeed your issue).
I do think it's a big odd that Rails 2.2 has been out for so long, but mongrel hasn't released a gem that's compatible with it, or warned people on the project page that there's a problem, or what have you. Makes me kind of worried that there aren't very many (any?) people on the mongrel development team, and one shouldn't count on future versions. 

Jonathan

Michael Pliskin wrote:

Dear Luis,

Thanks a lot for replying, I followed your advice and it revealed the problem: 
it was the --prefix switch that caused it. When I start it like
E:\RailsApps\3vi>mongrel_rails start -e development -p 3001 -a 127.0.0.1 -l "e:/RailsApps/3vi/log/1.log" -P 
"e:/RailsApps/3vi/log/mongrel.pid" -t 0 -r "public" -n 1024 --prefix "/labelyzer"
I am given a ton of errors:
** Starting Mongrel listening at 127.0.0.1:3001
** Starting Rails with development environment...
** Mounting Rails at /labelyzer...
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:440:in
 `load_missing_constant': uninitialized constant 
ActionController::AbstractRequest (NameError)
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.2/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:80:in
 `const_missing'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/rails.rb:151:in
 `rails'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/mongrel_rails:113:in
 `cloaker_'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:149:in
 `call'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:149:in
 `listener'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/mongrel_rails:99:in
 `cloaker_'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:50:in
 `call'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/configurator.rb:50:in
 `initialize'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/mongrel_rails:84:in
 `new'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/mongrel_rails:84:in
 `run'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/../lib/mongrel/command.rb:212:in
 `run'
        from 
D:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.5-x86-mswin32-60/bin/mongrel_rails:281
        from D:/Ruby/bin/mongrel_rails:19:in `load'
        from D:/Ruby/bin/mongrel_rails:19

And if I skip --prefix, it's all fine. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
 Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: mongrel-users-boun...@rubyforge.org 
[mailto:mongrel-users-boun...@rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Luis Lavena
Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:20 PM
To: mongrel-users@rubyforge.org
Subject: Re: [Mongrel] Mongrel service keeps re-starting ruby

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Michael Pliskin<m...@comapping.com> wrote:

Hi all,



Some disclaimer first: I am a complete newbie in mongrel and this list, so
please forgive me if I say something weird. I have a problem, I've googled
for a solution for quite a while and failed so far, so decided to ask here.



I am trying to set up my Rails application on Windows according to this
manual:
http://nlakkakula.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/10-steps-for-deploying-your-ruby-on-rails-application-on-a-windows-server-2008-apache-mongrel-cluster/
. Everything is ok however when I completed all the steps, Apache complains
that it cannot contact proxy - meaning there is something wrong with
mongrel. I digged further and found mongrel keeping re-starting the ruby
process. If I look into a task manager, the picture is like:

-          A ruby.exe process is started

-          It eats 100% CPU for 5 seconds

-          It also eats about 25MB RAM

-          It dies then

And the process repeats forever. It looks like there is some error happening
but I don't know any way to capture it.



My OS is Win2k Advanced Server SP4. Any ideas?



Thanks,

  Mike Pliskin



That behavior is normal with mongrel_service. has been implemented in
a way that the ruby process automatically restart in case of a
failure, which is seems is happening in the background.

To debug this, please start mongrel standalone:

cd my_app
mongrel_rails start

Doing that, you should see, on the console, what is happening.

Please paste the results on your reply so I can help you out.

Cheers,
--
Luis Lavena
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but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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