------ art_188894_6647194.1187159398723 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Thanks Chris - I'll try this. Any ideas on whether this approach would assist in keeping more than 1 fastcgi? I note that there are 2-3 processes fastcgi ruby processes that Dreamhost seems to kickoff when I hit the website (I'm not sure where this number is specified). Cheers Greg On 8/14/07, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis / gmail.com> wrote: > > > Any suggestions on how to improve startup time? > > As mentioned, you'll probably get better help on the rails or dreamhost > forums. > > Having said that, I had a similar problem on dreamhost and solved it > using a cron job that periodically accessed my rails app, > > 0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * curl -s http://my.domain.com/ > > dev/null > > Hope that helps, > > Chris > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > ------ art_188894_6647194.1187159398723--