God doesn't actually work. We used god on FamSpam, currently use it on GitHub, and I've heard at least two massive Facebook apps (Friends for Sale and Rock Leg

God doesn't actually work. We used god on FamSpam, currently use it on GitHub, and I've heard at least two massive Facebook apps (Friends for Sale and Rock Legends) use it to manage a large number of processes across a large number of servers. For intelligently killing runaway processes (different attempts with different kill methods), monit is rather lacking. At CNET we ran into this again and again so I was very excited when Tom started god. On one of our GitHub app slices, god has been running for 8 days and is using 8 megs of RAM. I can't speak for anyone else's setup, but I haven't seen the famed memory leak. I would recommend god to anyone running a high trafficked Ruby-based site.