Gdb the stuck mongrel and force it to raise a backtrace. It looks like
maybe you're stuck in a timeout loop somewhere that never excepts
properly?

Evan

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:30 PM, Michael Kinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Rails 1.2.3 app (due for an update, I know) running on a
>  Mongrel 1.1.4 behind Apache 2.2.3 mod_proxy on Debian 4.0. It keeps
>  hanging up for no reason I can tell. I have tried everything that anyone
>  has ever hinted at being a solution for this problem:
>
>  - The application doesn't use MySQL, so setting the connection timeout
>  won't help.
>  - Using AR not PStore for sessions.
>  - Logger isn't rotating the logs itself.
>  - I added the no-keepalive and force 1.0 setenv commands to apache.
>
>  In the apache log, I get the typical "proxy: error reading status line
>  from remote server localhost". lsof shows lots of sockets in CLOSE_WAIT.
>  strace gives this sequence over and over:
>
>  time(NULL)                              = 1207001155
>  select(4, [3], [], [], {0, 0})          = 0 (Timeout)
>  sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [])        = 0
>  time(NULL)                              = 1207001155
>  gettimeofday({1207001155, 980832}, NULL) = 0
>  gettimeofday({1207001155, 980855}, NULL) = 0
>  select(4, [3], [], [], {0, 999977})     = 0 (Timeout)
>  gettimeofday({1207001156, 980679}, NULL) = 0
>  select(4, [3], [], [], {0, 153})        = 0 (Timeout)
>
>  I tried letting them run after sending a USR1, but that doesn't seem to
>  generate any extra information.
>
>  At first, I thought it would only happen if the Mongrels were allowed to
>  sit idle - similar to the MySQL problem others reported - but then I saw
>  one go silent within a half hour of a restart.
>
>  Any suggestions?
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Evan Weaver
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