After reading on nubyOnRails about this issue – I have setup an hourly cronjob to kill all defunct Ruby processes on my dreamhost box. You may see some slight improvements in speed on this site. Now if we could only convince dreamhost to run lighttpd we’d be sorted.

Thanks noR !

the cron

1. hourly – kill defunct ruby procs 01 * * * * /home/hiddenloop/crontabs/killrubyprocs

the script

!/bin/sh

export procs=”`ps x -o ppid,comm | grep “” | sed -e “s/^[ \t]\([0-9]\) ruby.*/\1/”`” for i in $procs; do kill -9 $i done