[Catalyst] Intermittent blank pages

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

Tobias Kremer <list at funkreich.de> wrote on 08/28/2008 10:44:31 AM:

> Quoting Wade.Stuart at fallon.com:
> > Tobias Kremer <list at funkreich.de> wrote on 08/28/2008 09:02:24 AM:
> > > Quoting Sebastian Willert <willert at gmail.com>:
> > > > Are you using Perlbal in front of FastCGI? Perlbal is prone to
deliver
> > > > blank pages if the back-end times out. Unfortunately I haven't
found
> > > > a way to avoid this behavior, but maybe someone on the list can
help
> > > > out ...
> > > No, we're using lighttpd and nothing changed on that front during the
> > last two
> > > days :(
> > Are they delivered instantly or after a long pause?
>
> Instantly.
>
> I just noticed that shortly after a series of those errors appear inthe
error
> log, the process gets killed off (and restarted) by daemontools'
softlimit due
> to memory constraints. Afterwards it takes some time until the
errorreappears.
> But we have this exact setup running for over a year now and never had
said
> problem.
>
> --Tobias
>

Is it possible that the concat error and resstart are related (memory load)
but the blank pages are due to the restart killing (restarting) the procs
off before the fastcgi payload is sent?

-Wade