The workaround I tested a few weeks ago did not really solve my problem – actually it made it worse. The autorestart caused mono to hang and not restart at all, so my site stopped responding every 6th hour. I quickly had to disable this. Still I had the memory consumption problems. From various sources [...]
Lately I have been experiencing that the mod-mono-server2 process running on the server hosting the video upload web-service (I blogged about this in my last post) has been consuming a lot of memory. Once, it even reached the point where all memory (1.5GB) of the server was consumed and the Linux OOM-killer killed the mod-mono-server2 [...]
22 Mar, 2009
Posted by: Peter In: ASP.NET| Amazon Web Services| Linux| Mono| Python
A few months ago my employer asked me if it would be possible to create a web service for encoding videos. I had been playing around with Amazon’s web services for a while, and it seemed like the perfect foundation for building this.
I decided to build the backend in Python and use ffmpeg for encoding [...]