On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Eric Wong <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael Guterl <[email protected]> wrote: >> We've been using Unicorn 1.x very successfully for some time with a >> Rails 2.3 application. Would you recommend upgrading to Unicorn 3.x? > > Yes if you're running a recent Linux (>= 2.6.28), it might help somewhat > with performance (but may not be noticeable with a particular app). > I haven't done extensive benchmarking, but the reduction of syscalls > should help a bit, and newer versions will exploit some of that more. > > I don't expect (m)any regressions on recent Linux, and any will be found > and fixed quickly (usually within 24-48 hours). > > If you're willing to help iron out portability bugs to other kernels, > then please upgrade and report back :) > > > On the other hand, if you're going to be losing a lot of > money/users/lives in case of failure, stick to what works for you :)
Just an anecdotal data point here, using OpenBSD-current. Moving from Unicorn 1.0 to 2.0 sped up the scaffolding_extensions integration test suite by a factor of 3 (~10 seconds to ~3 seconds). I'm guessing this is due mainly to the use of kgio. Hoping to upgrade to Unicorn 3.0 today. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
