# How is wiki.rubyonrails.org's uptime lately?

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**Created:** [August 9, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-is-wiki-rubyonrails-orgs-uptime-lately/145451 "2008-08-09T20:53:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 9, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-is-wiki-rubyonrails-orgs-uptime-lately/145451/1 "2008-08-09T20:53:27Z")

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Hello folks.

I migrated [wiki.rubyonrails.org](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org) to Phusion Passenger and Ruby  
Enterprise Edition about 2-3 weeks ago. Before, the wiki’s Mongrels  
were crashing at a regular rate, for unknown reasons. We figured that  
Phusion Passenger’s ability to automatically restart crashed processes  
should increase uptime a lot.

It turns out that the wiki has memory usage problems and is constantly  
being bombarded by (spam?) bots. Since the migration, I’ve been  
continuously tweaking Phusion Passenger and the wiki’s configuration.  
For example I’ve added an option to Phusion Passenger that would  
restart the wiki if it used too much memory. Last week or so, Michael  
Koziarski and I have finally identified the memory problems. Today the  
last memory problem (that we’re aware of) has been fixed.

I’m wondering what people think about the wiki’s uptime as of late. In  
the past few weeks I’ve restarted Apache a few times in order to  
upgrade Phusion Passenger, but the downtime of each such restart was  
only a few seconds. In my opinion the wiki has been pretty solid  
lately. In the past 2 weeks I haven’t seen it go down at all. But a  
few days ago someone edited the front page and added the text “It  
would be nice if uptime were of some importance to this wiki”. So this  
made me wonder whether I’m wrong and that the wiki is still unstable.

Comments would be much appreciated.

Regards,  
Hongli L.

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**Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-is-wiki-rubyonrails-orgs-uptime-lately/145451/2 "2008-08-12T11:17:48Z")

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On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 4:10 AM, Hongli L. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> I’m wondering what people think about the wiki’s uptime as of late. In  
> the past few weeks I’ve restarted Apache a few times…

I had it on montastic until recently - the only outages appear to have  
been you restarting it (because it came back up quickly).

If you want to see for yourself, I’d suggest putting it on montastic  
with your email. I took it off my monitoring list because of the  
restart spam, and because someone else (looks like you!) was handling  
it.

Thanks and good job,  
– Chad