# FastCGI unlimited spawning

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-unlimited-spawning/77220>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 25, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-unlimited-spawning/77220 "2006-11-25T07:46:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sombrero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@sombrero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sombrero)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2006, 7:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/fastcgi-unlimited-spawning/77220/1 "2006-11-25T07:46:13Z")

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Hi,

We’re having an issue with lighttpd / ruby / fastcgi and don’t know  
where to start to troubleshoot but we’re having a major issue. Fastcgi  
seem to be spawning and spawning and not closing bringing the system to  
a halt every few hours. To remedy this, we just made a shell script to  
execute cleaning up of dispatch.fcgi processes every 2 mins just to get  
the system up for awhile.

We’re using Ruby 1.8.4, Lighttpd - 1.4.1.1

Has anyone encountered this problem before?

Any help on where I can go to understand this problem more would be a  
big help.

thanks in advance.