We have a load balancer sending requests to one of X boxes and one of N mongrel processes on that box.
Since each mongrel processes is multi-threaded but it has a mutex around the section that calls rails, we end up with several requests queued up waiting when they could have gone to another box with a free process. For example, boxA, and boxB. boxA has mongrels 1 through 10 boxB has mongrels 11 through 20 Load balancer sends a request to boxA mongrel 5. Load balancer sends a request to boxB mongrel 12. Load balancer sends a request to boxA mongrel 5 again. It has to wait for the 1st request still running on boxA mongrel 5. How can we help the load balancer know it should have sent the request to any number of other free mongrels vs. queuing up threads that have to wait? Thanks. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
