Make sure your Monit check interval (not sure abou the default) is greater than your Mongrel request timeout interval (default 60 seconds).
Evan On Jan 8, 2008 8:18 PM, Erik Hetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Wed, 9 Jan 2008 01:58:58 +0100, > Greg Willits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Monit 4.9, Mongrel 1.0.1, Rails 1.2.6, Mac OS X 10.4.11 (PPC) > > > > I don't know whether this is a mongrel issue or a monit issue. > > > > I'm trying to poke my way around a system set up by someone else. I have > > no more experience w/ mongrel that local Rails dev at this point, and a > > conceptual understanding of how monit is working. I have the Deploying > > Rails beta book, and I'm muddling my way thru mongrel and monit docs, > > but I think some hints as to direction would be useful. > > > > […] > > I have seen a similar situation here. What happened was (more or less, > this is from memory) a mongrel instance would be locked up on an HTTP > response that would take a long time to complete. Because requests > would just queue up behind this one, monit would fail to get a > response in a reasonable time, would assume that the process was > non-responsive and try to restart it gracefully (using mongrel_rails > stop). Mongrel would take a long time to shut down because it was > still processing that long running response, so we would get a message > that monit couldn't shut it down and it would fail to start (or > something like that). Finally the long running rails process would > complete, mongrel would restart, and monit would let us know that the > process was back up. > > The solution was to make sure that responses come back in a reasonable > amount of time. > > best, > Erik Hetzner > ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library > ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3 > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Evan Weaver Cloudburst, LLC _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
