On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Walter Lee Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Rails 2 app that doesn't get a lot of traffic. It's running under > Passenger and Apache 2.2, and when it's running, it has great performance, > page loads are very snappy, etc. But the first hit on the site after the > server has gone to sleep takes a good while to load, right on the edge of > "hmmm, server isn't responding...". > > Is there something I can do, short of a cron job to request the home page > every couple of minutes, to keep this spin-down from happening?
I would install NewRelic or equiv to see where the time's being spent. My guess would be a DB pool connection timeout; re-establishing the first connection is fairly time-consuming. HTH! -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected] twitter: @hassan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
