Rails - May 2006 - Mod_fcgid question: is this normal?

I installed mod_fcgid yesterday. It works great for my Rails
app. But in my fastcgi.crash.log is constantly get this output:
[23/May/2006:08:12:07 :: 29040] starting
[23/May/2006:08:18:48 :: 29040] asked to terminate immediately
[23/May/2006:08:18:48 :: 29040] terminated by explicit exit
[23/May/2006:08:22:03 :: 29391] starting
It also shows up in the Apache error log. Is this normal? Or
should I be worried?

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Looks like your Ruby code has an exit command in it?

If so, remove it, handling the exit conditional without
exiting...

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On May 22, 2006, at 11:32 PM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> I installed mod_fcgid yesterday. It works great for my Rails
> app. But in my fastcgi.crash.log is constantly get this output:
> [23/May/2006:08:12:07 :: 29040] starting
> [23/May/2006:08:18:48 :: 29040] asked to terminate immediately
> [23/May/2006:08:18:48 :: 29040] terminated by explicit exit
> [23/May/2006:08:22:03 :: 29391] starting
> It also shows up in the Apache error log. Is this normal? Or
> should I be worried?
>
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Tom Mornini wrote:
> Looks like your Ruby code has an exit command in it?
> 
> If so, remove it, handling the exit conditional without
> exiting...
What could an exit command look like? I don''t remember
ever writing one? What should I look for?
> 
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On May 23, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> Tom Mornini wrote:
>> Looks like your Ruby code has an exit command in it?
>>
>> If so, remove it, handling the exit conditional without
>> exiting...
>
> What could an exit command look like? I don''t remember
> ever writing one? What should I look for?
In it''s most common form, it would look like:

   exit

:-)

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I can''t find an exit command in my app.
Where could it be? I checked every controller, every model, ...


Tom Mornini wrote:
> On May 23, 2006, at 12:14 AM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> 
>> Tom Mornini wrote:
>>> Looks like your Ruby code has an exit command in it?
>>>
>>> If so, remove it, handling the exit conditional without
>>> exiting...
>>
>> What could an exit command look like? I don''t remember
>> ever writing one? What should I look for?
> 
> In it''s most common form, it would look like:
> 
>    exit
> 
> :-)
> 
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This is the output from the apache error log:

mod_fcgid process .../dispatcg.fcgi exit (idle timeout) terminated by 
calling  exit() return code 0

Can''t be good or am I wrong?


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Maarten:

I get these messages, too. I am also using Apache and mod_fcgi. I do  
not have any exit commands, either. I haven''t found an answer, but  
will let you know if I find anything. Anyone else have ideas?

Thanks,

-Anthony

On May 23, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> This is the output from the apache error log:
>
> mod_fcgid process .../dispatcg.fcgi exit (idle timeout) terminated by
> calling  exit() return code 0
>
> Can''t be good or am I wrong?
>
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Does anyone know the difference between "asked to reload ASAP",  
"asked to terminate immediately", and "terminated by explicit
exit"
when these phrases are found in fastcgi.crash.log?

e.g.:

[22/May/2006:07:16:28 :: 27060] asked to reload ASAP
[22/May/2006:07:16:36 :: 28350] starting
[22/May/2006:08:46:10 :: 4501] starting
[23/May/2006:07:16:34 :: 4501] asked to terminate immediately
[23/May/2006:07:16:36 :: 4501] terminated by explicit exit



On May 23, 2006, at 6:11 AM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> This is the output from the apache error log:
>
> mod_fcgid process .../dispatcg.fcgi exit (idle timeout) terminated by
> calling  exit() return code 0
>
> Can''t be good or am I wrong?
>
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Great to know I''m not the only one with this issue.
It all works great by the way only these error messages.

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Oh, I know another possibility.

You can generally set how many hits a fcgi process
takes during its life.

Is it possible that message is issued at the end
of a processes life?

The original message said you were getting these
"constantly" which I (incorrectly) read as "each
hit".

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On May 23, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Maarten Hendrikx wrote:
> Great to know I''m not the only one with this issue.
> It all works great by the way only these error messages.
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Tom Mornini wrote:
> Oh, I know another possibility.
> 
> You can generally set how many hits a fcgi process
> takes during its life.
> 
> Is it possible that message is issued at the end
> of a processes life?
Yes, it starts up a process with every hit. And if no more
request are received it shuts the process down.
> 
> The original message said you were getting these
> "constantly" which I (incorrectly) read as "each
> hit".
So you read right, and I wrote wrong :-)
> 
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I''m having the exact same problem here.
My Apache error_log is filled with these messages.



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Ok, I''m currently experimenting with the following
values in my httpd.conf:
 IPCCommTimeout 120
 IPCConnectTimeout 10
 MaxProcessCount 40
 ProcessLifeTime 86400
 IdleTimeout 1800
 DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 8

So far, I only got a startup notice in my Apache error_log and
no more shutdowns. I''ll keep you posted, because my ps aux tells
me the started process has a pretty high memory footprint. The highest
of a the running processes. So I''ll keep an eye on that.

Maarten

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