[Mongrel] Configuring Mongrel logging

2006-09-01 Thread Paul Butcher
Is there any way to configure Mongrel's logging? Specifically, I'd like to get it to output to syslog. Our Rails apps already do this (via SyslogLogger) - is there any way to persuade Mongrel to do the same? Thanks! -- paul.butcher-msgCount++ Snetterton, Castle Combe, Cadwell Park... Who says I

Re: [Mongrel] Recommentation: Sessions and PStore

2006-09-03 Thread Paul Butcher
Zed wrote: * Using the mysql.rb instead of installing the actual mysql compiled gem. The mysql.rb is just for development, and it sucks horribly. Please forgive the stupid question, but how does one tell whether one is using the mysql compiled gem or not? I've installed it, apparently

[Mongrel] Why Rails + mongrel_cluster + load balancing doesn't work for us and the beginning of a solution

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Butcher
We have been searching for a Rails deployment architecture which works for us for some time. We've recently moved from Apache 1.3 + FastCGI to Apache 2.2 + mod_proxy_balancer + mongrel_cluster, and it's a significant improvement. But it still exhibits serious performance problems. We have the

Re: [Mongrel] Why Rails + mongrel_cluster + load balancing doesn't work for us and the beginning of a solution

2006-09-20 Thread Paul Butcher
Zed Shaw zedshaw at zedshaw.com wrote But, if your interface is time sensitive then why does it have actions that take too much time? See the conundrum there? I was kinda expecting that response, Zed, but I didn't want to rob you of the pleasure of saying it ;-) We are in fact using

Re: [Mongrel] Why Rails + mongrel_cluster + load balancing doesn'twork for us and the beginning of a solution

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Butcher
Have you ever use haproxy http://haproxy.1wt.eu/ ?! In a word, no :-) He have the following feature which can help you: Thanks - sounds interesting. We'll give it a go! -- paul.butcher-msgCount++ Snetterton, Castle Combe, Cadwell Park... Who says I have a one track mind? MSN: [EMAIL

Re: [Mongrel] Design flaw? - num_processors, accept/close

2007-10-16 Thread Paul Butcher
On 16 Oct 2007, at 06:49, Zed A. Shaw wrote: On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:43:34 -0700 Brian Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently ran into exactly this issue. Some rails requests were making external requests that were taking 5 minutes (networking issues out of our control). Now

Re: [Mongrel] Workaround found for request queuing vs. num_processors, accept/close

2007-10-16 Thread Paul Butcher
On 15 Oct 2007, at 21:52, Robert Mela wrote: I've discovered a setting in mod_proxy_balancer that prevents the Mongrel/Rails request queuing vs. accept/close problem from ever being reached. Thanks for that, Robert. We've hit exactly the same issue in the past, but have been unable to