On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:41:56 -0300 "Benjamin Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Zed, > > > > Thanks Zed. It is in fact behind nginx with gzip compression. How can > > > I work around this? By increasing/decreasing the buffer size? Here's > > > the relevant (I think) section of my nginx config: > > > > You can't. Nginx's author is coming out with a version that fixes > > this, but otherwise it's just inherent in the design. > > > > Your best bet actually is to just do these uploads to a completely > > offline standalone Mongrel server so you don't tie up rails. It's about > > the only compromise there is other than just not doing it in the first > > place. > > By "offline" you mean not serving rails, right? This would require the > first of the two options presented on the site: No, by "offline" I mean a separate server that uses only Mongrel (not rails) to handle all uploads and just the upload/status part. Using iframes, redirects, and the session cookies with data stored in the db it's possible to pull this off and nobody will know. I've done it a few times, and Ezra's got quite a few under his belt. > > This is fine and dandy, but not too many sites run on a single Mongrel. > > You'll quickly > > run into problems with multiple mongrels since only one Mongrel process > > knows about > > the upload. You'll either have to specify a specific mongrel port to > > communicate with, > > or set up a dedicated mongrel upload process. The third option, is use DRb. Many sites however run single Mongrel's for single purposes. This is the great thing about a small fast web server. You don't *have* to use rails for everything, and can distribute the work to specialized servers that do stuff like this in a lightweight fashion. Basically, it's not an either/or proposition. -- Zed A. Shaw, MUDCRAP-CE Master Black Belt Sifu http://www.zedshaw.com/ http://www.awprofessional.com/title/0321483502 -- The Mongrel Book 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
