Run your Dreamhost apps under separate users
After an email exchange with Dreamhost I have had it confirmed that their watcher processes monitor on a per user basis. This means that if you run each app under a separate user you are less likely to have problems with getting your fcgi processes killed.
Excerpt of my email exchange with Dreamhost> Is it true that the processes are watched on a per user basis
> as in running each app under a different user name will
> mitigate problems?Yep, that’s correct!