# Fast cgi retry interval question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fast-cgi-retry-interval-question/123331>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [December 16, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fast-cgi-retry-interval-question/123331 "2007-12-16T17:42:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![frocco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/a87d85/32.png) [@frocco](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/frocco)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fast-cgi-retry-interval-question/123331/1 "2007-12-16T17:42:33Z")

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Sorry, this is kind of off-topic, but since most of the people who use  
mod\_fastcgi and fcgi.rb are probably on RoR, I though this would be most  
appropriate place to ask the question.

My website has experienced an outage because the fcgi script repeatedly  
crashed.

Under mod\_fastcgi the server attempts to restart 3 times and then  
increases the restart interval to 600 seconds (=10 minutes) to prevent a  
single process from hogging resources. Unfortunately that means that you  
have at least a 10 minute outage. I’m trying to configure mod\_fastcgi so  
that it retries every 60 seconds no matter what, but I can’t find any  
way of doing this in the “documentation”.

This is the configuration for my server process:

FastCgiServer /usr/local/apache/fastcgi/abcdefg.fcgi -processes 1

Can you help?

BTW Is there any way of performing an

apachectl graceful

automatically when there’s a problem with a module?

Best regards,

Frank