Hi,

I'd appreciate an advice on how to debug the following problem: unicorn 
sometimes freezes for 6-7 seconds and stops taking new requests, then resumes 
as if nothing happened. Details below.

My setup:
- nginx 0.7.67 proxying requests to unicorn
- unicorn 4.4.0
- rails 2.3.x application

Unicorn is set up as I've described in this list earlier:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-unicorn/2010-November/000770.html

In short:
- we have two groups of workers:
  - one serving long-running requests that take more than 10 sec, listening to 
a '/tmp/long_requests_unicorn.sock' socket
  - another serving normal requests, listening to '/tmp/unicorn.sock' socket
- nginx determines which request goes to which sockets.

This worked perfectly for 2 years. Looks like after we upgraded to unicorn 4.4, 
the normal requests started to get stuck in the queue. That happens randomly, 
several times per day. When that happens, requests wait for up to 7 seconds to 
be served. At that time most or all of the workers are available and not doing 
anything. Unicorn restart fixes the problem.

Has anyone seen something freezes like that? I'd appreciate any help with 
debugging and understanding this problem.
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