On 2/15/07, Ball, Donald A Jr (Library) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Following MenTaLguY release, I compiled and uploaded to rubyforge > > win32 gem of fastthread. > > > > Waiting it spread to all gem mirrors. > > Do you recommend using fastthread with mongrel/mongrel_service in > production on win32? >
Yes, since any implementation of ruby 1.8 have the issues described by MenTaLguY. (even after several test win32 didn't show leak described months ago by Zed). I recommend and been using it without troubles. > For that matter, I seem to recall you advocating against pen for load > balancing on win32. > The problem is cygwin and all the translation/compatibility layer. Pen is *nix. Even if you see Pen on Windows (http://siag.nu/pen/). You sacrifice performance due that extra layer around your processes. > Do you have an alternate recommendation? No, not yet. Guess until a serious option (without expending thousand dollars in Windows Server 2003, which have built in support for this), Pen will be the one. Regards, -- Luis Lavena Multimedia systems - Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile. Vince Lombardi _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
