# Ruby 1.9.1 intermittently slow **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 13, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-1-intermittently-slow/181535 "2010-01-13T11:55:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![c\_allison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@c\_allison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/c_allison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 11:55am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-1-intermittently-slow/181535/1 "2010-01-13T11:55:53Z")
Hi I built a web app using Ruby 1.8.6. Then used Ruby Enterprise Edition and Passenger (and Apache) for production. Everything was good. Then on a whim I decided to compile ruby 1.9.1 from source and point my Passenger config to the new ruby binaries. I fixed a couple things in the app, then I was up and running. However when the app sits unused for a while, the next time I try to access it takes several seconds. After this “warm up” it’s nice and snappy again, and remains that way until I leave it. Is this normal behavior? ---
**Author:** ![c\_allison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@c\_allison](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/c_allison)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2010, 1:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-1-intermittently-slow/181535/2 "2010-01-13T13:22:31Z")
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM, c\_allison [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > takes several seconds. After this “warm up” it’s nice and snappy > again, and remains that way until I leave it. > > Is this normal behavior? Do you build the Apache module, mod\_passenger.so, using Ruby 1.9.1 passenger scripts? Next, it really depends on your hosting company how they manage idle processes because some hosting companies shutdown the process after N minutes of idle time. Then the next request will get things going again. Lastly, I would check with your hosting on their administrative policy. Good luck, -Conrad