Dreamhost 100MB memory limit

I’ve recently found a thread on Google Groups which mentioned a 100MB memory limit for FCGI processes on Dreamhost, which can be a reason for killing them by their process monitor.

One of the posts says:

Interestingly, this limit doesn’t apply to Ruby processes. When I asked them if this was an admission that Ruby on Rails has a sad deployment story, the response was “Ahem.. =)”

This could explain my trick with the “dispatch.fcgi” file name, assuming this is how their process monitors detect Ruby on Rails. Again, it’s only my guesses.