Rails - Issue with passenger and mysql

My Rails app currently runs on Passenger. We have six machines in production with each machine having 45 instances of passenger. Each instance of Passenger seems to be having a open connection with MySQL. So there are about 270 open connections with MySQL.

A few minutes after the application is started MySQL seems to at 400% CPU and the application almost becomes non-responsive with a lot of pending requests in the global queue.

Prior to this release the application was running on Mongrel (six machines with each machine running 5 instances of mongrel). We did not see any issues there.

Will reducing the number of Passenger instances solve the issue? Is there a way we can have a connection pool for the passenger instances (Instead of each instance having a separate connection).

Thanks,

Siv开发者_C百科akumar

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Passenger shares db connections among all processes. Make sure your database.yml has a high pool size.

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