# Mongrel Randomly getting TERM **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [July 2, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-randomly-getting-term/96845 "2006-07-02T15:55:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hampton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-randomly-getting-term/96845/1 "2006-07-02T15:55:36Z")
Has anyone ever experienced this problem? Every 12-24 hours _one of_ my mongrel processes gets a TERM signal and quits. There is all I get in my mongrel log… \*\* Mongrel available at 0.0.0.0:8003 \*\* TERM signal received. And my rails-log is silent too. No request starting. Just the end of a successful request and then nothingness. The other processes are doing just fine and stay up for good. Anyone know what’s going on here? Oh yeah, and its lighty-proxy + mongrel on Ubuntu. -hampton. ---
**Author:** ![Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hampton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-randomly-getting-term/96845/2 "2006-07-02T21:16:38Z")
On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 09:55 -0400, Hampton wrote: > The other processes are doing just fine and stay up for good. Anyone > know what’s going on here? > > Oh yeah, and its lighty-proxy + mongrel on Ubuntu. A few people have reported this, and the only time I’ve seen it was when I ran under a Xen VPS and there wasn’t enough ram for the process, so Linux went in and started killing processes at random. I believe it does this if the CPU or memory gets dominated by a process, but I’m not sure how to turn it off. – Zed A. Shaw > **[Zed A. shaw](https://zedshaw.com/)** > > Personal essays and writings by Zed A. Shaw. [http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/](http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/) [http://www.railsmachine.com/](http://www.railsmachine.com/) – Need Mongrel support? ---
**Author:** ![Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hampton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-randomly-getting-term/96845/3 "2006-07-02T21:29:14Z")
> A few people have reported this, and the only time I’ve seen it was when > I ran under a Xen VPS and there wasn’t enough ram for the process, so > Linux went in and started killing processes at random. I believe it > does this if the CPU or memory gets dominated by a process, but I’m not > sure how to turn it off. it’s probably something with ulimit or rlimit. by default, on the two distro ive tried in the past 5 years, there are no limits, which means a script can get in an infinite loop, chew up all RAM, chew up all swap, then make the system entirely unresponsive with nonstop disk-grinding until it is reset… ---
**Author:** ![Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hampton](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Hampton)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 4:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-randomly-getting-term/96845/4 "2006-07-02T16:41:32Z")
Hi, I’ve not been getting a TERM signal, but I have been getting a random HUP signal. It is still happening and I have no idea why. There’s a thread from mid-June on the mongrel mailing list. Cheers, Bob On Jul 2, 2006, at 9:55 AM, Hampton wrote: > The other processes are doing just fine and stay up for good. > Anyone know what’s going on here? > > Oh yeah, and its lighty-proxy + mongrel on Ubuntu. > > -hampton. > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) * * * Bob H. – blogs at \<[http://www.recursive.ca/](http://www.recursive.ca/) hutch/\> Recursive Design Inc. – [http://www.recursive.ca/](http://www.recursive.ca/) Raconteur – [http://www.raconteur.info/](http://www.raconteur.info/) xampl for Ruby – [http://rubyforge.org/projects/xampl/](http://rubyforge.org/projects/xampl/)