Dear Ben Thank you for your valuable input!
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Ben Noordhuis <i...@bnoordhuis.nl> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 08:25, Zeno Davatz <zdav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I am trying to debug mod_ruby to load in Apache for Windows. So far >> Apache for Windows does start with mod_ruby.so but it seems that httpd >> does not start correctly with mod_ruby enabled in Apache for Windows. > > I don't have a solution for you but I would suggest to not do this > (run mod_ruby on Windows, that is). Ok, I take notice of this. > Apache on Windows serves all requests from a single process. Apache on Linux does not do that? Our Apache on Linux with mod_ruby sometimes has over 1'000 sessions and about 30-50 threads open. Memory can go up to 10 GB. > The Ruby interpreter is not thread-safe so mod_ruby creates a Big Mutex > whenever it needs to run. Thus on Windows, with its single-process > model, mod_ruby can only serve one request at a time. So you say, that mod_ruby on Windows can _not_ leverage its power because Apache on Windows is a single thread process? This is very interesting. Best Zeno
