[Catalyst] Anyone using the FastCGI External server in production?

[Bill Moseley]

On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 09:59:21AM -0700, apv wrote:
> On Wednesday, Apr 5, 2006, at 09:08 US/Pacific, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > On a dedicated server at Dreamhost when I restart the application
> > (currently with five processes) the processes sit at the top of top()
> > for about 30 - 45 seconds and requests during that time return a 
> > generic 500
> > error from apache.  I'm not using any Loader type of code, either, so
> > the db is not hit during this time.
> 
> I had the same behavior when using kill(all) to restart my apps (also
> on DreamHost). When I started using touch my_app.fcgi instead, the
> problem disappeared.

AFAIK, that only works in dynamic mode.  When in server mode (not
external server) that doesn't seem to make the process manager
restart the running processes.

-- 
Bill Moseley
moseley at hank.org