> What's a rule of thumb for guesstimating how many > Mongrels to use in a cluster for an app? I have an app > that gets about 5000 unique visitors per day. I > figured I'd give it plenty of Mongrels -- twenty to be > specific. After running out of memory and hitting the > swap periodically, I scaled it back to five and it > still seems to serve up visitors fine. So, is there > some super-secret math fomula I can use to determine > the ideal number of Mongrels I should start in a > cluster for an app?
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/how_many_mongrels.html Just for reference, we get about 500,000 pages a day and run 4 mongrel processes... we've got about 20 servers[1], but 4 gives us the best performance. [1] We don't need 20 except for about one month a year when we do about 8 million pages a day... then they come in handy, but even then they don't sweat that much. -philip _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
