After seeing Dreamhost killoff my fastcgi processes I’ve modified my dispatch.fcgi file in accordance with the suggestion on the dreamhost wiki. This is fully functional and you can (probably) just copy and past straight into your dispatch.fcgi file. The contents of the file are mostly just comments anyway, so this significantly simplified my dispatch file. Enough ado, here’s the code:

    require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/../config/environment"
    require 'fcgi_handler'

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

    RailsFCGIHandler.process! nil, 10
  

• Dave said: So what does this 'class RailsFCGIHandler' actually DO? simply restart the handler when the shared host's server asks you to shutdown FCGI? so that it is persistantly turned on until it has been used 10 times?

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