I recently put a site up on dreamhost (my first on dh, and my first
using ferret/aaf). I don't believe I had the problem stated below, but
it's hard to tell. On occassion it appears that fastcgi isn't starting,
but if I poke at it a bit (touch dispatch.fcgi) enough, it eventually
will fire up.
Pages without ferret appear to work fine.
Search pages, however, barely/rarely work. My guess is that dreamhost
is killing the fastcgi process due to high cpu and/or memory, but I'm
not sure how to verify that.
In script/console, I ran a search and it took about 50 seconds to
return. So clearly I have something amiss with my ferret/aaf config or
how I'm using it. I have about 50k rows in one table and 7 fields
indexed (with only 4 of them ever being populated with data).
I currently have ferret 0.9.3. I've tried upgrading to the latest, but
haven't been able to get a new aaf (see post about not being able to
install latest aaf) to accompany it so I'm kinda stuck there until I can
get a new aaf.
Anyway, if anybody has any ideas or expectations that should be set with
a shared hosting plan at dreamhost, I'm all ears.
Thanks
-Mark
anrake o. wrote:
> I think I figured out this problem. All you had to do was add this line
> to the top of environment.rb
>
> ENV['GEM_PATH'] = '/home/USERNAME/.gems' + ':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'
>
> The DH wiki says to put the following, but it didn't seem to work.
>
> ENV['GEM_PATH'] = File.expand_path('~/.gems') +
> ':/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8'
>
> I actually created a new test project in dev. mode and saw an error
> some where like "couldn't expand ~" or "unknown comand expand_path" or
> something like that and just put in the absolute path as above on a
> whim. Then it worked fine.
>
>
> anrake wrote:
>> Hi, I am experiencing exactly the same phenomenon.
>> Everything works find on my powerbook, but not on DH. I changed
>> bash_profile to add my local .gems directory and installed ferret with
>> no apparent problems. I added a line to environment.rb as instructed in
>> the wiki but still get the same problems when I try to deploy my new
>> site (via Capistrano). Likewise I think dispatch.fcgi is not starting.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Chris Lowis wrote:
>>> Does anybody have experience with running ferret on dreamhost ?
>>>
>>> My app is running ok until I install the acts_as_ferret plugin, at which
>>> point I get "Rails application failed to start properly" errors. I've
>>> used script/console to confirm that I can require 'ferret' and make a
>>> new Index object . Everything appears to be ok in that respect.
>>> Unfortunately there is nothing logged in these circumstances, except :
>>>
>>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI: comm
>>> with (dynamic) server
>>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi" aborted:
>>> (first read) idle timeout (120 sec)
>>> [Wed Aug 16 07:10:23 2006] [error] [client 152.78.115.107] FastCGI:
>>> incomplete headers (0 bytes) received from server
>>> "/home/c_lowis/residence-review.com/public/dispatch.fcgi"
>>>
>>> in the "apache" type logs that dreamhost gives me . Through trial and
>>> error I am fairly sure it is ferret that is causing this, as when I
>>> remove the plugin the site works ok.
>>>
>>> I am using ferret 0.9.5 . As far as I can see dispatch.fcgi is not
>>> starting.
>>>
>>> Would appreciate any comments,
>>>
>>> Chris
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