On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 11:31 -0500, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > This is my first post, so I'm not sure if it's been asked before, but > > I can't find an answer anywhere. > > > > If I have one rails application running, one processor I'm running it > > on, and mongrel is multi-threaded, why should I have more than one > > mongrel running? > > > > Everyone seems to agree on 3-5 mongrels per rails app, but why? > > Performance... somewhere Zed has an article on how to benchmark things.. > something along the lines of benchmark a blank static html page. That's > as fast as your server will go. Then create a simple action that renders > "Hello" as text say, with one mongrel. Benchmark that. Keep increasing > the number of mongrels until you don't get any more performance > improvements. > > For us, it was 4.
Wow, someone listened. Nice job Philip. -- Zed A. Shaw http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/ http://www.lingr.com/room/3yXhqKbfPy8 -- Come get help. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
