Two ruby processes are running for one Rails app

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Hi,

  I'm using ruby 1.8.7 with rails app(2.3.11) and deployed the app with apache server. My app performance is too slow so i configured the app with new relic and could see the ruby has 2 instances. One is for ruby(nobody) =201 MB and one more for ruby(root)= 73.9 MB. I killed the processes but still can see the same. Please help me and say why 2 instances are running for ruby?.

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Hi,

I’m using ruby 1.8.7 with rails app(2.3.11) and deployed the app with

apache server. My app performance is too slow so i configured the app

with new relic and could see the ruby has 2 instances. One is for

ruby(nobody) =201 MB and one more for ruby(root)= 73.9 MB. I killed the

processes but still can see the same. Please help me and say why 2

instances are running for ruby?.

It depends how you are running your app, but passenger for example has a separate spawner process responsible for starting new application instances.

Fred

PS: your app is using a version of rails which most likely allows remote code execution.

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Frederick Cheung wrote in post #1122155:

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Short version: assuming you are using passenger, that’s just how it works. Long version http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Architectural%20overview.html

Fred