Rake assets:precompile gets killed when there is a console session open in production

Question

On my production server, which is hosted on digital ocean, if that helps, Ubuntu 12.04, I have RoR 4 and rake 10.1.1.

When I deploy, I run rake assets:precompi

Answer 1

This uses a lot of RAM. To check how much available RAM memory you have free, use the command

free -m

This will show the available RAM in MB

A temporary solution would be to create a swap space.

I was going to add this as a comment to Jason R post above before you go into his steps, just to make sure it is a RAM resource issue.

you could also run

echo {1,2,3} > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

to clean up the cache memory, but it probably will not free up enough.