In May I had problem with mongrels suddenly consuming huge cpu resources for a minute or two and then returning to normal (load average spikes up to 3.8and then back down to a regular 0.2 over the course of 5 minutes, then again 1/2 hour later. or 4 hours later, no predictable rhythm).
I posted to Litespeed forums because I thought the problem was there but didn't get far. And a week later migrated hosting companies and the problem was gone. Now its returned. We make a lot of changes, but I've gone over the repo for the last few weeks and can't see anything structural that should effect it. It only happens with our main front end app (the other two are fine), but happens at all times of day(/night) so doesn't seem triggered by a heavy load. Basically a mongrel gets stuck on one or two cached files for a few minutes (but still functions fine for other requests, I can ping specific rails pages on all mongrels during this period). strace -e read,write,close produces this repeatedly the whole time (short excerpt of 1000s of lines): close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_covehithe_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image"..., 16384) = 473 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_rowde_wiltshire_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/p"..., 16384) = 471 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_cove_south_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, imag"..., 16384) = 474 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_covehithe_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image"..., 16384) = 473 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_rowde_wiltshire_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/p"..., 16384) = 471 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_cove_south_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, imag"..., 16384) = 474 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_covehithe_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image"..., 16384) = 473 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_rowde_wiltshire_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/p"..., 16384) = 471 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_cove_south_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, imag"..., 16384) = 474 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_covehithe_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image"..., 16384) = 473 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_rowde_wiltshire_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/p"..., 16384) = 471 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_cove_south_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, imag"..., 16384) = 474 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) read(5, "GET /flower_delivery/florists_in_covehithe_suffolk_england_uk HTTP/1.1\nAccept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image"..., 16384) = 473 close(5) = 0 close(5) = -1 EBADF (Bad file descriptor) the file its trying to get is page cached, and exists/is fine (can even go to url while this is going on). Could it still be a problem with Litespeed (actually requesting this file many times?). Litespeeds cpu usuage does go up during this period, but stracing it doesn't give anything useful. thanks for any tips/directions. Zach
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