PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ PPID
COMMAND
12565 ettinger 39 0 1110m 1.1g 2680 R 99.9 54.4 21:53.77 1
/usr/bin/ruby1.8 /usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -C
/home/ettinger/directoryofdirect
CPU: 99.9%
Mem: 54.4%
What can I do to bring this back inline with an acceptable value?
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
Run monit on it and restart the fuckers when they aren’t playing nicely.
Here’s a sample of my old monit config that did just that:
http://pastie.org/287363
…OR switch to mod_rails. I just made the switch and I’m loving not
having to slap my mongrels around or deal with monit madness anymore.
Substruct - Open source RoR e-commerce software.
http://code.google.com/p/substruct/
Monit doesn’t really solve the problem though. I’ve also heard
mod_rails isn’t ready for primetime yet.
I’d like to know what is causing it to eat up memory and CPU usage so
badly…as it ran fine for the last few weeks up until the last few
releases.
I’ve read that it could be anything from a bad regex to low disk
space, gdb debugging rails didn’t give me much that a simpleton like
myself could understand:
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2006/9/22/inspecting-a-live-ruby-process
http://eigenclass.org/hiki.rb?ruby+live+process+introspection
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, seth b [email protected] wrote:
seth - subimage llc
CPU: 99.9%
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
Anthony,
What version of Ruby are you running? (ruby -v) I’ve seen this problem
quite a few times with 1.8.6 p114.
1.8.5? Wow. That’s pretty old. I wouldn’t think that that would be the
problem, but it certainly couldn’t hurt to upgrade to something a bit
more recent. Unless you’re using rails 2.1 exclusively I’d suggest
1.8.6 p287 and see if that resolves your problem.
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-linux]
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Alex Malinovich
[email protected] wrote:
I’d like to know what is causing it to eat up memory and CPU usage so
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Anthony E. [email protected] wrote:
What can I do to bring this back inline with an acceptable value?
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
Monit doesn’t really solve the problem though. I’ve also heard
mod_rails isn’t ready for primetime yet.
Yeah, Shopify and Cashboard are really not “primetime” Rails apps huh?
LOL.
I’d like to know what is causing it to eat up memory and CPU usage so
badly…as it ran fine for the last few weeks up until the last few
releases.
Could be a variety of things. Rmagick is a known culprit, but I’m sure
google will lend you many answers.
Substruct - Open source RoR e-commerce software.
http://code.google.com/p/substruct/
Thanks Alex, I’ll give it a shot.
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Alex Malinovich
[email protected] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Alex Malinovich
On Oct 8, 10:31 pm, “Anthony E.” [email protected] wrote:
having to slap my mongrels around or deal with monit madness anymore.
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473http://anthony.ettinger.name
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
Hi Alex,
My ISP only has 1.8.5 and Rails 2.1.
I think there is a logic error somewhere in my code, prior to about a
week ago, the site was functioning fine.
If someone has any ideas on how to debug the 99% CPU usage, I’d be
interested in hearing.
Anthony
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Alex Malinovich
[email protected] wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Alex Malinovich
On Oct 8, 10:31 pm, “Anthony E.” [email protected] wrote:
having to slap my mongrels around or deal with monit madness anymore.
Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.Mem: 54.4%
408-656-2473http://anthony.ettinger.name–
Anthony E.
408-656-2473http://anthony.ettinger.name
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:50 PM, Anthony E. [email protected]
wrote:
Hi Alex,
My ISP only has 1.8.5 and Rails 2.1.
I think there is a logic error somewhere in my code, prior to about a
week ago, the site was functioning fine.If someone has any ideas on how to debug the 99% CPU usage, I’d be
interested in hearing.
Anthony,
Are you seeing similar results when running in development? Has much
changed in the application (code or visitor-wise) in the last week or
so that could be triggering this behavior?
You might consider looking at the performance tools from New Relic or
Five Runs, which can assist you in determining where some of the
bottlenecks in your code might be lingering.
Good luck!
Robby
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On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Anthony E. [email protected]
wrote:
What can I do to bring this back inline with an acceptable value?
After switching hosting providers (as this was the default response I
got from many), the prod app still had the same issue and stopped
serving. Thanks to a couple of people on #rubyonrails channel, we
narrowed it down to a bad circular reference in the :include => […]
method I was using for the sortable_column_headers plugin.
Here’s the change I made, and the app loaded fine after that:
@directories = Directory.paginate( :page =>
:include => [{ :software => :directories
}, { :status => :directories }],
+
:include => [:software, :status],
You may be able to ascertain this by tailing the production.log and
then cutting and pasting the SQL query into the mysql monitor
manually, with the words “EXPLAIN ” infront of it.
This could help explain where indexes could be useful, although that
helped it was not my problem.
My next task is to learn how to debug and profile my rails app and how
to copy production data in a test database so these issues surface as
soon as the code is written. For my case, the test database only had a
few rows, so the exponential growth in the query time was able to pass
through with only 5 data sets…on production it was 89 and tail spun
into a memory/cpu hog.
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Anthony E.
408-656-2473
http://anthony.ettinger.name
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Robby R. [email protected]
wrote:
Are you seeing similar results when running in development? Has much
changed in the application (code or visitor-wise) in the last week or
so that could be triggering this behavior?You might consider looking at the performance tools from New Relic or
Five Runs, which can assist you in determining where some of the
bottlenecks in your code might be lingering.Good luck!
Its very odd, I have test.example.com (test) and example.com (prod) on
the same server, and the code has been deployed to both. However every
time I start the prod mongrel_rails server, each request hangs and
eats up CPU at 95% and takes 10 seconds for a request to complete.
test.example.com does not have this problem, it serves the pages in
under a second.
I originally thought it may be the DB, so I made prod (example.com)
use the test environment, and the issue continues.
I don’t know what else it could be, as they are seemingly identical
when both are running as “test” environment.
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