[Mongrel] Mongrel dying daily with Ruby 1.8.6

[Pete DeLaurentis]

Thanks for the tips Zed, I will uninstall + reinstall all of the  
gems.  There is also a new version of fastthread, which I just  
installed.  In the words of the author:

"Well, just when I thought I was done with fastthread, it turns out  
that the version of fastthread merged into Ruby 1.8.6’s thread  
library had a couple serious bugs. So, here’s a new version of  
fastthread which can serve as a hotfix until the next Ruby release."
- MenTaLguY, http://moonbase.rydia.net/

We made the switch to 1.8.6 for the reputed 10% speed boost.  We're  
using it on our in-house server that runs our beta app, and we're not  
upgrading the customer servers until this is stable.

Thanks for the help,
Pete




On Apr 4, 2007, at 7:37 AM, Zed A. Shaw wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 05:43:54 -0700
> Pete DeLaurentis <pete at nextengine.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I've been running mongrel for a while now with Ruby 1.8.4, and last
>> week upgraded to 1.8.6.
>
> First, NEVER upgrade a production server to new versions before you
> test the living hell out of it.  This always leads to disaster.
>
> Second, I haven't tested Mongrel on 1.8.6 and there's apparently a
> small bug in the new thread implementation that's included.  You'll
> want to try out fastthread very latest even if you're running 1.8.6.
>
> Third, whenever you do an upgrade you have to recompile ALL of your
> gems.  Every last one.  No matter what.  Best way to do this is
> uninstall all of your gems then reinstall the ones you need.  It's  
> good
> spring cleaning, but it also makes sure that the compiled extensions
> work with the new ruby interpreter.
>
> Lastly, I only deploy 1.8.5 with fastthread, not 1.8.6.  I'm sure
> there's bugs lurking in 1.8.6 that haven't been tested out on both
> Rails and Mongrel.
>
> Let me know what you find.
>
> -- 
> Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu
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