similar to: SwitchTower with spinner/spawner/reaper = teh suxx0r

Hi, Anyone know where i can find out more info on Reaper/Spawner. Currently, every time i add a new account on my production machine, i have to restart the whole server. After about 150 accounts, this puts a real strain on the server (it takes 3 full minutes before i can access any site on the server). I think reaper/spawner is my answer, but i am havving trouble figuring out how to use it.

I''ve got switchtower set up, and it seems to work fine except for one problem: It doesn''t successfully restart lighttpd. I have the following task in my deploy.rb file: desc "Restart the web server" task :restart, :roles => :app do sudo "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lighttpd.sh restart" end This is on a FreeBSD system, so it''s using the rc script to

I just setup switchtower and I am very happy with it. Just one thing is giving me some headache: My development machine is windows and my deployment host is Unix. Each time I deploy I need to make dispatch.fcgi executable. I wrote my own task for that. But does there exist any smarter way to get this automated ? I think Subversion offers some possiblity to declare a file as executable, but no idea

I was working on deploying an app with switchtower, and I really dislike the way spawner is implemented. The way it will relaunch the dispatcher all the time just to let it die if the port is in use is too brute force for my taste. As we''re in a ruby script, why not let ruby find out if the port is in use? Using the TCPServer class we can try and bing to the port. If we succeed, it means

Hi everyone, I''m trying to set a port with spawner, and it''s not working: ruby /var/rails/ldapadmin/current/script/process/spinner -c /var/rails/ldapadmin/current/script/process/spawner --port=7000 -i 4 -d spinner: invalid option: --port=7000 Same with -p: ruby /var/rails/ldapadmin/current/script/process/spinner -c /var/rails/ldapadmin/current/script/process/spawner -p 7000

Hi, Has anyone experiences using SwitchTower (Windows) in a shared hosting environment (Textdrive)? I already patched the SwitchTower rake tasks (I don''t know if someone is interested on it), but i still experience some problems (not in the sudoers list, ...). Thank you for answer (and thank you to the textdrive guys, i never had a such fast support!) -- Jean-Etienne Durand

The deployment scenario... Apache2 on shared host, proxying to lighttpd, which has 3 external fcgis running on localhost. The fcgis are managed by spinner/spawner. We''re noticing a definite speed issue on "first requests" to this site. For example: * Hit the site a few times, paying no attention to load time * Wait x period of time (haven''t quite narrowed this

Seems like my day for Rails posts... :) OK. I''ve started using Swtichtower to help with deploying changes to my production rails apps. Unfortunately I''ve come accros an inconsistency that I can''t quite figure out. It''s about the PATH env var under Bash. I''ve created a task that just does a: run "env", to show what I''m seeing:

Hi, I have a trouble with deploying my ordinary rails application(myapp). When I execute ''rake deploy'', [...] command finished * executing task symlink * executing "ls -x1 /var/www/myapp/releases" servers: ["app1.olalog.com"] [app1.olalog.com] executing command command finished * executing "ln -nfs /var/www/myapp/releases/under

I''d like to announce the second release of capistrano-runit-tasks, available from http://rubyforge.org/projects/cappy-runit/ It now supports: * File based templates * sv as the service control command in addition to runsvctrl * A much simpler interface for creating additional services. More work still needs to be done though! == TODO * Allow add_service to create more than one

This is my deploy file set :application, "varcasa stage" set :repository, "file:///c:/svnrepo/thenali/trunk" # ============================================================================= # ROLES # ============================================================================= # You can define any number of roles, each of which contains any number of # machines. Roles might

It appears the spawner in Rails 1.2 will do Mongrel clustering. I''m curious what this means for mongrel_cluster. They appear to overlap in features quite a bit. I don''t think the spawner uses a config, so that''s one difference. Will they be different enough? I only ask because mongrel_cluster could, theoretically, be made extinct if the spawner script has all the same

Hi, I have about eight active RoR sites right now. Of the eight, six are on Rails 1.1.6 and they deploy correctly every time. Two are on Rails 1.2.3, and those two do not deploy correctly. The cap deploy command runs successfully until the restart, and then it hangs: [lx07] executing command ** [out :: lx07] sudo -u wwwrun /usr/local/rails/mysite/current/script/process/spawner -r 30 -p

It took me a little while to figure this one out. Perhaps it''s obvious to other folks, but in case it''s not: If you''re using lighttpd with an external spawner for non-PHP applications like rails, you need to list explicitly each port that the spawned processes are using, ex: fastcgi.server = ( ".fcgi" => ( "localhost" =>

Hello, The company that I work for will be developing a large webbased survey (for a government institution) somewhere in Q1/Q2 of 2006. I''m investigating the technological possibilities and Rails is certainly a candidate. The survey application will have to perform under very high peak load, and the exact specifications of the hardware are not known at this point. I''m assuming

Hi all, I set up a standard Capistrano deployment on a new host. To start the Mongrels, "script/spin" calls "script/process/spawner mongrel". It prints a few lines as if everything were normal, however the mongrels are not started and it doesn''t create any files in log or tmp that would give me a clue on what happened. If I start Mongrel via script/server -e

Hi there, I''m having some difficulties finding some decent info on getting Switchtower to function for my needs. I''ve read most of the Switchtower doc on http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/chapter/97, however it''s not answering some potent questions I have. 1. The doc mentions, as an example, using an SVN repos at http://svn.switchtower.com/flipper/trunk What if I

Hi there, I have been running the reaper on dreamhost and I''m not sure it is actually restarting the processes will the reaper create new processes? because all the PID''s are the same before and after I run the reaper Restarting [1344] ruby dispatch.fcgi Restarting [10172] ruby dispatch.fcgi Restarting [21592] ruby dispatch.fcgi Restarting [4931] ruby dispatch.fcgi Restarting

Hello, I''m trying to restart my application fastcgi processes using reaper. But I get the following error: $sudo -u www ./script/process/reaper Couldn''t find any process matching: /var/www/example/200605200000/public/dispatch.fcgi The problem is that it should not look for 20060520000 but for current which is a symbolic link pointing to 200605200000. I did the

fcgi_watch is a supplement to (or replacement for) <rails_app>/script/process/reaper. The standard reaper script searches for all processes started with a given pathname using the output from a ps command, and performs an action on them. There are problems with this approach, at least on some shared servers: - The pathname seen from a script is not necessarily the same as the