Zed A. Shaw wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 22:07:51 +0100 > Jeroen Houben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Are there any recommendations as to what is currently the most stable >> setup is for mongrel & apache? I read somewhere (probably here) that you >> should avoid using PStore for sessions. Are there any more of such >> recommendations? Also, what is currently the safest version of mongrel >> to use in production? > > General warning is using any external libraries that require sharing OS level > resources (files, sockets, shmem, file locks) should be avoided or very > strictly tested and controlled. Additionally, if you *must* use these put > them into a separate DRb server and make it the single control point for the > resources.
I use Ruby's built-in IO functions to fetch some external RSS and do some file caching. Would you consider this a hazard? I had a Rails site that had gone 500 when it couldn't connect to the external feed. This was due to a lack of error checking on my behalf. The weird thing was that other Rails sites on the same box also stopped responding. I know this is a vague problem description, I'll try and get to the logs and see if I can spot anything. > Also, try to avoid RMagick processing inside rails. People love their > file_column, but RMagick is a fat nasty pig that cripples many sites without > warning. The optimal setup is use something like BackgrounDRb or a plain DRb > server and use a batch processing method. > > That's the main warnings right now. Thanks Zed. Jeroen _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
