I’m having issues with a site on my server loading and was running ‘top’ and saw this:
alt text http://share.shpigford.com/images/ruby_processes-20091112-103834.png
Dozens of ruby processes…and I have no idea what that means or if that’s normal. 🙂
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I have a feeling that your PassengerMaxPoolSize is set too high for such a small amount of memory. Just totaling that up your ruby processes are eating 81% of your available memory.
See this related discussion on ServerFault. This question should probably be migrated over there.