Rails - Aug 2007 - 24 seconds for FASTCGI process to startup??? Is this normal???

Hi,

I''m on Dreamhost for hosting and have been finding that (noting
Dreamhost
kill off ruby processes) the first page return takes 20-40seconds, after
which things go ok.  I''ve put some logging in the
"dispatch.fcgi" code and
note the following:

- HTTP log output for initial request:  X seconds
- "dispatch.fcgi" entry: 1 second after this
- fastcgi process log entry:  24 seconds after last step
- my RoR app log entry:  1 second after last step

Question - Is it normal for the fastcgi processes to take this long to start
up?   Any suggestions on how to improve startup time?

Note:  I am aware of a work around mentioned on the Dreamhost wiki which I
will try (see below), however I wanted to make sure I can''t optimize
the
root cause start up time before going into work around mode.

 If you are using fcgi with Ruby on Rails, you might get what appear to be
random 500 errors occasionally. Alex Young''s
workaround<http://work.alexyoung.org/archives/102/dreamhost-and-rails-500-errors>,
adapted from Gary Lin''s
workaround<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.ruby.rails/33057>seems
to resolve this. Basically, add the following code to your
dispatch.fcgi, right *before* RailsFCGIHandler.process! class

RailsFCGIHandler
 private
  def frao_handler(signal)
   dispatcher_log :info, "asked to terminate immediately"
   dispatcher_log :info, "frao handler working its magic!"
   restart_handler(signal)
 end
 alias_method :exit_now_handler, :frao_handler




Regards

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