On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 10:18 -0600, Kirk Haines wrote: > On 8/9/06, carmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Rails is not threadsafe, so you can only have 1 process per mongrel. > > > > according to actionpack/lib/action_controller/base.rb:239: "Action Pack and > > Active Record > > are by default thread-safe". plus doesnt mongrel typical run about 4 rails > > instances? i dont > > see why you couldnt run 8, and have half of them be another app with a URI > > prefix? > > Someone else can speak to Rails and whether it actually is threadsafe or not. > > However, you misunderstand Mongrel's handler for Rails. Take a look > at the source code. It's clean and easy to read. The Rails handler > has a single Rails application instance, and it has a mutex that it > uses to limit request processing within Rails to one at a time. The > use of this guard mutex can be disabled in the handler, if you want to > use Rails multithreaded, but Zed has a strongly worded warning against > doing that in the code. >
Yes, also known as the Great Katana Suicide Warning. The name should probably tell that you shouldn't use it. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.railsmachine.com/ -- Need Mongrel support? _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
