# Thin server hangs after running for some time

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-server-hangs-after-running-for-some-time/220085>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [May 28, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-server-hangs-after-running-for-some-time/220085 "2012-05-28T00:38:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/b77776/32.png) [@Gurdipe\_D](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Gurdipe_D)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2012, 12:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-server-hangs-after-running-for-some-time/220085/1 "2012-05-28T00:38:38Z")

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Has anyone been plagued by / solved this hanging issue?

[Thin server recently started hanging - Deployment - Ruby-Forum](http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/165042)

I get random hangs after hours or days of operation - (Win32,  
rails-2.3.12, thin 1.2.11) - the server runs for an arbitrary amount of  
time, fielding the same set of requests for browsing some low volume  
data (this app does not contain any high volume data).

At some point, it simply stops taking requests. It’s nothing to do with  
slowness, because the requests simply stop getting delivered to the  
rails framework - nothing in the log, not even the acknowledgement of  
the start of the request. Nothing. The browser is waiting, and nothing  
is happening.

Although I am getting this right now on Win32, it also happened on a  
particular Linux config as well.

Restarting ‘thin’ always clears the problem, and I have no other web  
server front-ending ‘thin’ in the stack.

Any advice on how to begin diagnosing such a thing? Potentially a  
broken/failed socket? If so, how would one verify that this is what is  
happening. (No info or failure events in the sys event log either).

… and please try not to reach too far in guessing - I am really  
looking for someone who had such an issue and found a fix for it.

Thanks a million!  
Fred

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**Author:** ![flw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flw)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-server-hangs-after-running-for-some-time/220085/2 "2012-06-22T17:36:18Z")

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Did you find the cure for this problem yet?

Regards,  
Sagar

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**Author:** ![flw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flw](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flw)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2012, 1:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/thin-server-hangs-after-running-for-some-time/220085/3 "2012-06-23T13:24:49Z")

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Sorry no … I do periodic restarts via cron/scheduled tasks to keep  
things going. A work-round, but not at all the solution I am seeking.

Fred

sagar p. wrote in post #1065702:

> Did you find the cure for this problem yet?
> 
> Regards,  
> Sagar