# Ruby processes consuming 1,000 megs of swap space **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [January 21, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952 "2006-01-21T02:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952/1 "2006-01-21T02:36:17Z")
Hi all. The subject pretty much says it. I’m running on a VPS-style shared server at [pipespring.com](http://pipespring.com). I’ve got Typo setup, and have been running it fine for about a month. However, today I got an e-mail from my host saying they disabled Ruby (chmod 000) because it was using waaay too much swap space. I haven’t changed anything with my server at all (Rails or otherwise) in at least a week. I looked through the server, development and fastcgicrash logs but found nothing that screamed “I’m messing this up!” The server is up and running right now, seems to be fine. Running a ps -ax yields about 8 or 9 Ruby processes - earlier in the day (after I turned enabled Ruby) it was spitting out like 30-40 processes after a single request to my site. Any ideas? Anything else I should look at? - Rabbit ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952/2 "2006-01-21T23:43:32Z")
This sounds like you are running typo in development mode and in CGI mode. If you would be running in production mode using fastcgi with working static caching you should not need more then a single typo process. On 1/20/06, Rabbit [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > - Rabbit > > * * * > > Rails mailing list > removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) – Tobi [http://jadedpixel.com](http://jadedpixel.com) - modern e-commerce software [http://typo.leetsoft.com](http://typo.leetsoft.com) - Open source weblog engine [http://blog.leetsoft.com](http://blog.leetsoft.com) - Technical weblog ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952/3 "2006-01-22T04:31:05Z")
My RoR processes (both SCGI and Webrick) eventually use up a lot of memory too. I periodically restart them. I don’t know if there’s a max memory setting, or option to automatically restart after so many connections (like Apache can do with its child processes). csn ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 6:41am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952/4 "2006-01-22T06:41:22Z")
It’s running in development mode with FCGI. If I change my httpd.conf to run Typo in production mode it fails to start. Dunno why. How can I get Typo to run in production mode? - Rabbit * * * ---
**Author:** ![dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@dewie](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dewie)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2006, 7:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-processes-consuming-1-000-megs-of-swap-space/52952/5 "2006-01-22T07:26:34Z")
Make sure your production database is configured correctly in database.yml You should never run development on a shared host, your admin will hate you (as you’ve found out) * * * From: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [[mailto:removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)] On Behalf Of Rabbit Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 9:39 PM To: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid Subject: Re: [Rails] Re: Ruby processes consuming 1,000 megs of swap space It’s running in development mode with FCGI. If I change my httpd.conf to run Typo in production mode it fails to start. Dunno why. How can I get Typo to run in production mode? - Rabbit * * * On 1/21/06, csn [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: My RoR processes (both SCGI and Webrick) eventually use up a lot of memory too. I periodically restart them. I don’t know if there’s a max memory setting, or option to automatically restart after so many connections (like Apache can do with its child processes). csn – Posted via [http://www.ruby-forum.com/](http://www.ruby-forum.com/).