# DRb - queue starvation?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drb-queue-starvation/116780>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [October 9, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drb-queue-starvation/116780 "2007-10-09T18:58:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcbey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@marcbey](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/marcbey)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/drb-queue-starvation/116780/1 "2007-10-09T18:58:53Z")

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I think I’ve run into some kind of queue starvation bug w/ DRb - it  
normally  
takes minutes per item to process items in the queue, and normally the  
queue  
has a bit of a backlog. But when it’s empty (nothing coming in), it  
seems  
to stop checking for new work.

Has anyone else run into this w/ DRb?

Any suggestions for debugging this?

Thanks,

m