The same application, working fine under 1.0, but after upgrade to 1.1RC1 (include edge Rails 4021) the cpu keeps spinning (took 85%) and the rest was taken by Postgresql. Looks like Rails keep sending sql statement to the database. I did a strace and following messages repeat: send(8, "Q\0\0\0\nBEGIN\0", 11, 0) = 11 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0xb7ec06bc, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLERR, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 recv(8, "C\0\0\0\nBEGIN\0Z\0\0\0\5T", 16384, 0) = 17 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {0xb7ec06bc, [], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 send(8, "Q\0\0\0\vCOMMIT\0", 12, 0) = 12 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0xb7ec06bc, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 poll([{fd=8, events=POLLIN|POLLERR, revents=POLLIN}], 1, -1) = 1 recv(8, "C\0\0\0\vCOMMIT\0Z\0\0\0\5I", 16384, 0) = 18 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_IGN}, {0xb7ec0605, [], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, ~[RTMIN RT_1], [], 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0xb7ec0605, [], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_IGN}, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, {0xb7ec06bc, [], SA_RESTART}, 8) = 0 I don''t know which part of Rails is sending the BEGIN/COMMIT, since it''s hang, no message was written to development log. When I downgrade to 1.0, everything backs to normal. How can I narrow down the problem? My env is: Linux CentOS 4.2 Ruby 1.8.4 (ruby-1.8.4-1.fc3) PostgreSQL 8.1.2 + gem postgres 0.7.1 Rails Rev.4021 (no plugin) I can reproduce the same behavior on two different servers(all CentOS, pgsql 8.1.2, ruby 1.8.4). I use Apache+SCGI but it hangs against Webrick too. Anybody with similar setup has a success of upgrade? Thanks, Kevin