Rails/Ruby's serialize rot after some time?..

I have some very weird problems going on with some Ruby on Rails-driven sites on my server.. Basically, everything works perfect after my mongrel clusters just launched, but as time passes (and it could be hours or even days), "serialize" part of my apps start returning absolutely wrong values, don't return them at all, or just don't store values correctly.

It is all fixed by restarting Mongrels, but I wonder if anybody knows what's up with this problem? I tried different versions of ruby (currently running 1.8.6p287), and don't want to upgrade to 1.8.7 yet (have too many systems, some running on Rails 1.2…)

WTF is going on?…

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