Hello Zed - Thanks for the response; I will follow your advice, and will get right on installing monit.
Question - you also say 'look in the linux log files'. Which log files should I look at, where are they and what should I look for? Thanks Robert That's awesomely complete for an analysis. And you say they just "poof" go away? Ok, so there *has* to be something different about your setup compared to other folks. I'm thinking the oom killer thing is to blame. Usually when someone says it "just goes boom" it's because of this. While you may think your mongrel process isn't using that much ram, keep in mind it's based on how much is available vs. what's used. You could have a mysql that eats all the ram and Linux decides to kill your mongrel. So, to confirm this isn't the case, monitor your memory usage totals during the day, and install monit to e-mail you when it needs to restart. Monit will tell you it had to restart, then you can jump on and see what your memory usage log was reporting. I usually just run a little cron job that spits out the free command to a file once every 5 minutes or so. Also, look in the linux log files. IIRC the oom killer doesn't say anything, but check to see if they improved this "magic". _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
