From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-20T05:14:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Why would a DRb process shut down?

Ben Johnson wrote:
> I have a program that runs about 10 DRb processes. Ocassionally one of 
> the processes will shut down and I will get the error telling me that it 
> can not connect to the process. It is this error:
> 
> Errno::ECONNREFUSED: Connection refused - connect(2)
> 
> What causes a DRb process to shut down? If an exception is thrown and 
> uncaught will that kill it? If the server has too much load will it die?
> 
> Any tips on keeping the processes running?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> 

Do you have Thread.abort_on_exception=true ? If not, a thread with an 
uncaught exception will die silently.

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