I have been trying to diagnose some sporadic "Rails application failed to start properly" errors, and this is what I have been able to determine. I am running on a shared server on site5, apache w/ FastCGI. When my application is running, it is only using 1 dispatch.fcgi process until I upload a picture. At that point, between 3-4 more dispatch.fcgi processes are spawned and the 500 errors are being caused as these extra processes slowly die off. So, now my couple of questions. What causes these additional processes to be spawned? What causes the process to die? Has anyone been able to solve this problem? Thanks for any help! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://wrath.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/attachments/20060720/eeb215a8/attachment.html