Lightty idle-timeout - does it work?

Rails
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Rails 1.0 on RedHat with MySQL

It seems that my app stops functioning overnight [actually I am
assuming that it is after a period of inactivity]. Googling around
for solutions, it seems that it might be an issue with timeouts on
the MySQL session. A suggestion I found was to a) increase timeout on
MySQL [don’t want to do that]; b) add idle-timeout parameter to
Lightty. So I have in my lighttpd.conf:

fastcgi.server = ( “.fcgi” =>
( “localhost” =>
(
“min-procs” => 1,
“max-procs” => 2,
“idle-timeout” => 60, <==== added this line
“socket” => “log/fcgi.socket”,
“bin-path” => “public/dispatch.fcgi”,
“bin-environment” => ( “RAILS_ENV” => “development” )
)
)
)

[Yes - 60 seconds is too low, but this is just a test]

My understanding is that Lightty should terminate an FCGI process if
it has been idle for that amount of time. But the dispatch.fcgi
processes appear to never get terminated.

Is this a lightty bug; a Rails bug; my brain bug?
And is this the correct solution to my timeout problem anyway?

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Derek C. wrote:

fastcgi.server = ( “.fcgi” =>
( “localhost” =>
(
“min-procs” => 1,
“max-procs” => 2,
“idle-timeout” => 60, <==== added this line
“socket” => “log/fcgi.socket”,
“bin-path” => “public/dispatch.fcgi”,
“bin-environment” => ( “RAILS_ENV” => “development” )
)
)
)

My understanding is that Lightty should terminate an FCGI process if
it has been idle for that amount of time. But the dispatch.fcgi
processes appear to never get terminated.

Adaptive process spawning doesn’t work in my observations with lighty.
And, the documentation1 itself states that it was disabled in 1.3.14.
This appears to be true even through the latest 1.4.x releases.

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Thanks for the reply… bummer! At least I now know that I wasn’t
being thick!