# Ruby Going Full Throttle On CPU

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-going-full-throttle-on-cpu/119875>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [November 11, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-going-full-throttle-on-cpu/119875 "2007-11-11T18:45:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jacob\_Basham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jacob\_Basham](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Jacob_Basham)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-going-full-throttle-on-cpu/119875/1 "2007-11-11T18:45:28Z")

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I’m not sure if this is a Mongrel issue, a rails issue or just a ruby  
issue, I haven’t attempted to dig into it yet. What’s going on is a  
ruby process is going to town on the CPU using between 99% and 101%  
after I attempt to shutdown mongrel running a rails project using the  
standard ctrl c. The only way I can get the processes to stop is to  
kill it.

Has anyone else seen this?

I’m running OS X 10.5

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [universal-darwin9.0]  
mongrel (1.0.1)  
rails (1.2.5, 1.2.3)

Thanks,  
Jake