On 06/09/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave Hansen</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@sr71.net">dave@sr71.net</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 19:25 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:<br>> In message <1189012764.21340.20.camel@localhost><br>> > > Unfortunately I'm not sure there is anything that can be done<br>> > > about it while we're using FastCGI. I don't know if switching
<br>> > > to Mongrel would be any better or not without looking into it.<br>> ><br>> > Where does that 10,000 request limit come from? I've heard it<br>> > mentioned, but I don't know about its origin.
<br>><br>> config/environment.rb in the server code is where it is defined.<br><br>OK, but why is there a limit in the first place? Why don't the daemons<br>just run forever?</blockquote><div><br>I believe the reasoning behind it was to prevent to daemons from consuming all the memory, which they would do due to memory leaks in some of the libraries used...
<br></div><br>d<br></div>