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The people following me on twitter already know I had problems with Ruby on a FreeBSD 6.3 system yesterday.

It seems that the default ruby 1.8 from the ports system has a big problem with recursion. The recursion level cant go nearly as deep as it can on other operating systems.

And if the limit is reached the ruby process crashes with a signal 4 (a SIGILL) instead of raising a SystemStackError as it is supposed to be.

So if you see your ruby processes (and this includes your mongrels) die without any reason on FreeBSD 6 you know what is wrong.

This year I'm attending the RailsConf Europe in Berlin.

Of course I attended Bratwurst on Rails, the pre-conference get together inspired by last years Pizza on Rails in London.

I have to say it was pretty cool, I met a bunch of cool people and so I'm looking forward to attending keynote by Dave Thomas in about an hour.

I'm posting all the pictures I took on my new picture gallery, so have a look.

Zed Shaw, the author of mongrel has a little social-networking-web-2 overdose he describes in his very inspirational blog. He also describes what he did before mongrel.

Managing software projects for the department of corrections of NYC.

Hell, we even made an RSS feed people could subscribe to and watch inmates being arrested, moved and released. How awesome is that?

Just by reading a few lines I can say: I like that guy!

I have been running this site on typo for a while now.

In shot: It has been a pain in the ass!

Till today I used Apache2 + FastCGI. But enough is enough! Memory leaks, crashing servers etc. So I switched to lighthttpd, wich seems to be better supported by Rails. But still the fac remains: the Typo head has a big memory leak somwhere. The main ruby process is already at 81 MB and I started it 30 mins ago...I'm in the process of writing my own blog software in Rails, and with a bit more time I will be finished.

As you may haved noticed I moved the blog to it's own subdomain. I like that better :-) Feeds etc should be redirected automaticly

For thoses reader who think "Does he only talk about tech. Isn't there something different?" I promise: The next post will be about porn ;-)

Update: Lighttpd has not brought much improvement, but I fixed a bug in Typo's code that prevented the saving of comments.

After several attempts, wich failed, I finally managed to upgrade this blog to the latest bleedin' edge Typo svn version.

I just had to remeber

• That there is something like rake migrate - wich is a wonderfull invention to migrate your database
• And that I have to check my own typo template - wich renders this wonderfull layout - aginst the latest bleedin' edge azure default template - maybe they changed something that breaks your blog.

So now I'll be rememberd