Re: [Rails] how to increase the time-out

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:58 AM, Walter Lee Davis <waltd@wdstudio.com> wrote:
> I have a Rails 2 app that doesn't get a lot of traffic. It's running under
> Passenger and Apache 2.2, and when it's running, it has great performance,
> page loads are very snappy, etc. But the first hit on the site after the
> server has gone to sleep takes a good while to load, right on the edge of
> "hmmm, server isn't responding...".
>
> Is there something I can do, short of a cron job to request the home page
> every couple of minutes, to keep this spin-down from happening?

I would install NewRelic or equiv to see where the time's being spent.

My guess would be a DB pool connection timeout; re-establishing the
first connection is fairly time-consuming.

HTH!
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