[Mongrel] Mongrel stops responding after period of inactivity

[Evan Weaver]

Looks like you hit the venerable Apache bug 39499 (and/or 37770), maybe.

Try adding

  SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1
  SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1

to your VirtualHost block for the Rails app.

Evan

On 7/29/07, Olly Lylo <list at lylo.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> I posted this to the Ruby on Rails Talk group but I thought I'd post it here
> too as it's probably a more appropriate group.  Hope this is ok.
>
>
> I'm running a 2-instance Mongrel cluster behind Apache 2.2.4 with Rails
> 1.2.3.  If no requests are received by the application for several hours
> (this usually happens overnight) then Mongrel stops
> responding and no requests are detected by Rails (at least nothing is in the
> Rails log).  Nothing untoward is in the Mongrel log.
>
>
> If you try and visit the application, the request times out with a 502 Proxy
> Error.  Apache is still up and running and serving static files without a
> problem, but the following is present in the Apache error log (from trying
> to hit the SessionController, identified by / sessions) which may provide a
> clue:
>
>
>     [Sun Jul 29 08:37:36 2007] [error] proxy: error reading status line from
> remote server 127.0.0.1
>     [Sun Jul 29 08:37:36 2007] [error] proxy: Error reading from remote
> server returned by /sessions
>
>
> Restarting the Mongrel cluster resolves the problem until the next time it
> happens.  I have done a lot of reading about this issue online and a number
> of sources -- including the Mongrel FAQ -- point to being able to fix a
> 'hanging mongrel' situation by setting this value in  environment.rb:
>
>
>     ActiveRecord::Base.verification_timeout = 14400
>
>
> This make the ActiveRecord timeout value less than the MySQL default of
> 28800.  I have made this change and it doesn't appear to make a difference.
>
>
> Can anyone advise me on what to try next to diagnose this issue?  I'm
> quickly running out of ideas and I'd appreciate a bit of help!
>
>
> Here are the vitals from our Ubuntu 6.0.6 server:
>
>
>     MySQL
>         Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.22, for pc-linux-gnu (x86_64) using readline
> 5.1
>         connect_timeout                 5
>         interactive_timeout             28800
>         max_connect_errors           10
>         max_connections               100
>         max_user_connections       0
>         wait_timeout                      28800
>
>
>     ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
>         cgi_multipart_eof_fix ( 2.2)
>         fastthread (1.0)
>         mongrel (1.0.1)
>         mongrel_cluster (1.0.2)
>
>
>     Apache/2.2.4 (Unix)
>
>
>     Mongrel Cluster Config:
>         port: "8000"
>         environment: production
>         address: 127.0.0.1
>         pid_file: log/mongrel.pid
>         servers: 2
>         user: [the user]
>         group: [the group]
>
>
>     Apache Load Balancer setup:
>         <Proxy balancer://appname_cluster>
>         BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:8000
>         BalancerMember  http://127.0.0.1:8001
>         </Proxy>
>
>
>     Apache Loaded Modules:
>         core_module (static)
>          authn_file_module (static)
>         authn_default_module (static)
>         authz_host_module (static)
>         authz_groupfile_module (static)
>         authz_user_module (static)
>         authz_default_module (static)
>         auth_basic_module (static)
>         cache_module (static)
>         include_module (static)
>         filter_module (static)
>         deflate_module (static)
>         log_config_module (static)
>          env_module (static)
>         headers_module (static)
>         setenvif_module (static)
>         proxy_module (static)
>         proxy_connect_module (static)
>         proxy_ftp_module (static)
>         proxy_http_module (static)
>         proxy_ajp_module (static)
>         proxy_balancer_module (static)
>         ssl_module (static)
>         mpm_prefork_module (static)
>         http_module (static)
>         mime_module (static)
>          status_module (static)
>         autoindex_module (static)
>         asis_module (static)
>         cgi_module (static)
>         negotiation_module (static)
>         dir_module (static)
>         actions_module (static)
>         userdir_module (static)
>         alias_module (static)
>         rewrite_module (static)
>         so_module (static)
>         php5_module (shared)
>         info_module (shared)
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Evan Weaver
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