[Rails] [mod_fcgid] 503 server temporarily unavailable

[Sam Joseph]

Hi There,

Every now and then, and recently more and more we get a "503 server
temporarily unavailable" error from our rails app.

We are running Rails 1.0 with mod_fcgid in Apache 2.0.54 on Debian

The thing is I don't think we have such a heavy load on the server, and
I haven't seen this error occur at all outside the rails app. In fact I
don't think I ever saw it before we switched to fcgid.

Has anybody else experienced anything similar running rails?

Any tips on how to avoid this?

CHEERS> SAM