Looks like you hit the venerable Apache bug 39499 (and/or 37770), maybe. Try adding
SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1 SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1 to your VirtualHost block for the Rails app. Evan On 7/29/07, Olly Lylo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > I posted this to the Ruby on Rails Talk group but I thought I'd post it here > too as it's probably a more appropriate group. Hope this is ok. > > > I'm running a 2-instance Mongrel cluster behind Apache 2.2.4 with Rails > 1.2.3. If no requests are received by the application for several hours > (this usually happens overnight) then Mongrel stops > responding and no requests are detected by Rails (at least nothing is in the > Rails log). Nothing untoward is in the Mongrel log. > > > If you try and visit the application, the request times out with a 502 Proxy > Error. Apache is still up and running and serving static files without a > problem, but the following is present in the Apache error log (from trying > to hit the SessionController, identified by / sessions) which may provide a > clue: > > > [Sun Jul 29 08:37:36 2007] [error] proxy: error reading status line from > remote server 127.0.0.1 > [Sun Jul 29 08:37:36 2007] [error] proxy: Error reading from remote > server returned by /sessions > > > Restarting the Mongrel cluster resolves the problem until the next time it > happens. I have done a lot of reading about this issue online and a number > of sources -- including the Mongrel FAQ -- point to being able to fix a > 'hanging mongrel' situation by setting this value in environment.rb: > > > ActiveRecord::Base.verification_timeout = 14400 > > > This make the ActiveRecord timeout value less than the MySQL default of > 28800. I have made this change and it doesn't appear to make a difference. > > > Can anyone advise me on what to try next to diagnose this issue? I'm > quickly running out of ideas and I'd appreciate a bit of help! > > > Here are the vitals from our Ubuntu 6.0.6 server: > > > MySQL > Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for pc-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline > 5.1 > connect_timeout 5 > interactive_timeout 28800 > max_connect_errors 10 > max_connections 100 > max_user_connections 0 > wait_timeout 28800 > > > ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux] > cgi_multipart_eof_fix ( 2.2) > fastthread (1.0) > mongrel (1.0.1) > mongrel_cluster (1.0.2) > > > Apache/2.2.4 (Unix) > > > Mongrel Cluster Config: > port: "8000" > environment: production > address: 127.0.0.1 > pid_file: log/mongrel.pid > servers: 2 > user: [the user] > group: [the group] > > > Apache Load Balancer setup: > <Proxy balancer://appname_cluster> > BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000 > BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8001 > </Proxy> > > > Apache Loaded Modules: > core_module (static) > authn_file_module (static) > authn_default_module (static) > authz_host_module (static) > authz_groupfile_module (static) > authz_user_module (static) > authz_default_module (static) > auth_basic_module (static) > cache_module (static) > include_module (static) > filter_module (static) > deflate_module (static) > log_config_module (static) > env_module (static) > headers_module (static) > setenvif_module (static) > proxy_module (static) > proxy_connect_module (static) > proxy_ftp_module (static) > proxy_http_module (static) > proxy_ajp_module (static) > proxy_balancer_module (static) > ssl_module (static) > mpm_prefork_module (static) > http_module (static) > mime_module (static) > status_module (static) > autoindex_module (static) > asis_module (static) > cgi_module (static) > negotiation_module (static) > dir_module (static) > actions_module (static) > userdir_module (static) > alias_module (static) > rewrite_module (static) > so_module (static) > php5_module (shared) > info_module (shared) > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
