Have you monitored the server with top / htop to check the behavior of the processes?
-- Aníbal Rojas http://hasmanydevelopers.com http://rubycorner.com http://anibal.rojas.com.ve On Jun 8, 11:06 pm, CRAZ8 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm setting up a brand new second server for my Rails applications, > and am having a problem with server load getting out of control. > > The machine is a quad core 2Ghz with 4G Ram and a single 500GB disk. > This is a web/app server with no database. > > When I direct traffic to the server and its stable, the thing runs > great - low Load for a few hundred Rails requests per minute. > > If I up the load (either more users show up, or I deploy with > Capistrano), the Load level increases to 1-2, and then *never comes > back down*. > > With enough traffic going to the server, the load sometimes gets out > of control, slowly increasing until I direct the traffic back to my > other server. > > I'm having real trouble diagnosing where the load is coming from. CPU > usage is really low, disk peaks during deploy, but goes back down, > network traffic isn't huge. > > Anyone got any ideas on what I can try next? > > This is a brand new server, so there may be something broken or badly > configured. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
