mongrel_cluster is installed with the mongrel gem and makes it easy to
serve multiple mongrel instances.
`mongrel_rails cluster::configure -h` for help.
On 9/4/06, Jeroen Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kris Leech wrote:
> > Jeroen Houben wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Kris Leech wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> A couple of questions please:
> >>>
> >>> What is the benefit of having more than one Mongrel/Rails instance on
> >>> the same machine, could one instance not serve as many requests as say
> >>> three instances?
> >>>
> >>> Is Mongrel Cluster a Apache add-in (like mod_*) or a separately running
> >>> load balancer which runs on a separate port, I could not work it out
> >>>
> >> >from the sample Apache config...
> >>
> >>> |# Redirect all non-static requests to cluster
> >>> RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
> >>> RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L]
> >>>
> >>> How does ||balancer://mongrel_cluster |work?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >> My understanding is that one mongrel can only handle one request at a
> >> time. Therefore 3 mongrel can process 3 request simultaniously.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > I see, and this is because Mongrel is not threaded, so its kind of like
> > replicating threads by using whole instances.
> >
> Well I'm not entirely sure about that. I think mongrel can do threads
> but you really shouldn't use Rails with threads.
> http://david.planetargon.us/articles/2006/08/08/why-you-need-multiple-mongrel-instances-with-rails
> >
> >> The balancer is a module for apache >= 2.1
> >> the balancer itself is not a seperate process, the pack of mongrels of
> >> course are seperate processes.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > Thanks, does it replace mod_proxy_balance?
> >
> >
> No balancer://mongrel_cluster *is* mod_proxy_balancer, please look at
> http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/apache.html for more details.
>
> Jeroen
>
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