Can't allocate memory

Question

Can't allocate memory

avitus opened this issue 13 years ago · comments

We seeing a lot of the following types of errors:

Errno::ENOMEM: Cannot allocate memory - fork(2)

[GEM_ROOT]/bundler/gems/spawn-beaf7937cae9/lib/spawn.rb:165:in fork' [GEM_ROOT]/bundler/gems/spawn-beaf7937cae9/lib/spawn.rb:165:infork_it'
[GEM_ROOT]/bundler/gems/spawn-beaf7937cae9/lib/spawn.rb:130:in `spawn_block'

They are occurring even though at the time 50% of our 4GB RAM is being utilized. Our environment is Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3.1.1, Nginx 1.0.6 and Passenger 3.0.6.

Andy · Answer 1 · Mon Dec 05 2011 08:20:55 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

We upgraded Passenger to 3.0.11 and Nginx to 1.0.10. We also set Passenger's spawn method to 'conservative' and the problem still seems to persist. It's odd because we've been using the spawn gem for over two years and have never had a problem with prior versions of Rails.

Tom Anderson · Answer 2 · Sat Dec 10 2011 01:40:24 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I've never used it with Ruby 1.9.x because of the name collision. That will change at some point (when I'm less lazy).

Michael Noack · Answer 3 · Mon Jul 07 2014 06:39:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Closing to clean up as this in an old issue, if this is still valid on the latest version of spawnling then please re-open the issue and I will address it.