# Application always unresponsive overnight **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-always-unresponsive-overnight/98317 "2006-07-13T21:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a698b9/32.png) [@Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nina_Ye)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-always-unresponsive-overnight/98317/1 "2006-07-13T21:59:08Z")
Hi, I set up my application on Linux (Suse), running MySQL (which sits on a different server) and Webrick. It works fine. However, every morning when I come back to my desk, the application gets unresponsive. If I simply access [http://host:3000](http://host:3000) [http://host:3000/](http://host:3000/) I can see the rails greeting page (that means Webrick is running fine right?), but if I access any of pages in the application, the browser just loads forever. It doesn’t say page not found or anything, but keeps connecting until timed out. (If I just kill the process, and restart script/server -d, the page loads fine again.) I thought it might have something to do with MySQL’s connection, so I wrote a controller that simply has render\_text … when I access [http://host:3000/test](http://host:3000/test), it doesn’t load either. So does that mean it’s not MySQL’s problem? So then I suspected it might still be a problem with Webrick. However, from reading the mailing list, people seem to be able to run Webrick continuously for days with no problem… I don’t really know where to start debugging this problem. So any tips would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Nina Ye Sr. Software Engineer SUCCESSFACTORS Tel: 650-645-2062 Fax: 650-645-2377 ---
**Author:** ![Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a698b9/32.png) [@Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nina_Ye)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-always-unresponsive-overnight/98317/2 "2006-07-13T22:13:57Z")
> I set up my application on Linux (Suse), running MySQL (which sits on a > different server) and Webrick. It works fine. However, every morning > when I come back to my desk, the application gets unresponsive. If I hi, nina… i am having alot of the same problems… but here’s something that has worked for me in some instances… [http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/70825#96966](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/70825#96966) ---
**Author:** ![Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/a698b9/32.png) [@Nina\_Ye](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Nina_Ye)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/application-always-unresponsive-overnight/98317/3 "2006-07-13T23:27:08Z")
On Jul 13, 2006, at 11:41 AM, Nina Ye wrote: > I set up my application on Linux (Suse), running MySQL (which sits > on a different server) and Webrick. It works fine. However, every > morning when I come back to my desk, the application gets > unresponsive. If I simply access [http://host:3000](http://host:3000) I can see the > rails greeting page (that means Webrick is running fine right?), > but if I access any of pages in the application, the browser just > loads forever. It doesn?t say page not found or anything, but > keeps connecting until timed out. (If I just kill the process, and > restart script/server ?d, the page loads fine again.) > This sure sounds like MySQL timeout. > I thought it might have something to do with MySQL?s connection, so > I wrote a controller that simply has render\_text … when I access > [http://host:3000/test](http://host:3000/test), it doesn?t load either. So does that mean > it?s not MySQL?s problem? > You beat me too it! 🙂 No, it could still be MySQL if you’re using ActiveRecordStore for your sessions. – – Tom M.