I ran into the same exact problem. I was finally exasperated enough to post this thread on the textdrive forums http://forum.textdrive.com/viewtopic.php?id=11147 It turns out typo is a real memory hog. I ended up just switching to wordpress.

Glad to hear you've made it safe and sound. Hopefully the boise.rb is treating you well.

I had a bunch of problems with TextDrive recently too. I was running rails apps fine for several months then everything went hinky. I think they ratcheted down the per-process memory limits to just over what a rails process normally takes, so anything slightly bigger (aka, Typo) gets memory allocation errors constantly. I moved to Site5 for some of my sites and PlanetArgon for my Typo blog and they are each much better. I would personally recommend PlanetArgon. I hear Rails Machines are great, too - but they're all sold out. Have fun in Boise, I almost moved there once and it's really quite nice.

I just switched from typo to mephisto and am very impressed. Good luck to you either way.

If you're not running a new-ish version of Typo, it's likely the culprit. Until I upgraded to 4.0, I was experiencing the same issues (though mine was crashing twice a day, at least). Try upgrading to 4.0, it will likely solve the issue.

Yah, I'm on typo 4.0, and I'm about 99% sure it's not a memory issue. I've got a daemon running that restarts typo anytime it gets larger than some threshold, and it hasn't had to be restarted by the daemon since I upgraded to 4.0. The thing that's wierd is that 90% of the time when my blog goes down, lighttpd goes down, too. I get no warning--just suddenly I'll go to pull up my blog and there's no response. I check, and sure enough, both typo and lighttpd are no longer running. Other rails apps I run on the same host don't have this trouble, though, so it must be typo. Kind of odd. I'm looking into mephisto, but the trouble with that is designing a theme that suits me. We'll see how it goes.

Jamis, what is the threshold your daemon checks for? Textdrive's has a per process limit of 48 megs and when that threshold is reached it will just whack it without giving any sort of notification in the process_watchdog.log file. http://www.mail-archive.com/typo-list@rubyforge.org/msg02897.html

Welcome back Jamis - look forward to reading your updates :)

Give mephisto a look. You can import Typo into it. It's so much better, imo.

Thanks, Joe, for the recommendation. I've been checking it out for acouple weeks now--I just need to find the time to work up a theme for it.