# Mongrel stops responding **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [October 15, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-stops-responding/151017 "2008-10-15T23:06:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eXt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e47c2d/32.png) [@eXt](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eXt)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-stops-responding/151017/1 "2008-10-15T23:06:33Z")
Hi all! I have a problem with my Redmine instance which runs on Mongrel. It is not a cluster, just a single instance of Mongrel 1.1.3. The problem is that after some time Mongrel stops responding. After a restart everything works well for a while (sometimes few hours, sometimes one day). Here is a snippet from mongrel’s log: Wed Oct 15 07:50:53 +0200 2008: Reaping 3 threads for slow workers because of ‘shutdown’ Thread #\ is too old, killing. Wed Oct 15 07:50:53 +0200 2008: Error calling Dispatcher.dispatch #\Thread #\ is too old, killing. /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 221:in `process' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 159:in`process\_client’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 158:in `each' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 158:in`process\_client’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in`initialize’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in `new' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in `initialize' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in`new’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:282:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:281:in `each' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:281:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel\_rails:128:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ command.rb:212:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel\_rails:281 /usr/bin/mongrel\_rails:16:in `load’ /usr/bin/mongrel\_rails:16Wed Oct 15 07:50:53 +0200 2008: Error calling Dispatcher.dispatch #\Thread #\ is too old, killing. /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 221:in `process' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 159:in`process\_client’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 158:in `each' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 158:in`process\_client’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in`initialize’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in `new' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 285:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in `initialize' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in`new’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel.rb: 268:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:282:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/…/lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:281:in `each' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ configurator.rb:281:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel\_rails:128:in `run' /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/../lib/mongrel/ command.rb:212:in`run’ /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/mongrel-1.1.3/bin/mongrel\_rails:281 /usr/bin/mongrel\_rails:16:in `load’ /usr/bin/mongrel\_rails:16Waiting for 3 requests to finish, could take 60 seconds. \*\* Daemonized, any open files are closed. Look at log/mongrel.pid and log/mongrel.log for info. \*\* Starting Mongrel listening at 0.0.0.0:8777 \*\* Starting Rails with production environment… \*\* Rails loaded. \*\* Loading any Rails specific GemPlugins \*\* Signals ready. TERM =\> stop. USR2 =\> restart. INT =\> stop (no restart). \*\* Rails signals registered. HUP =\> reload (without restart). It might not work well. \*\* Mongrel 1.1.3 available at 0.0.0.0:8777 \*\* Writing PID file to log/mongrel.pid I’m just Redmine user and not a ROR developer so I have a hard time debugging the above. Any ideas anyone?