On 11/6/07, Pete DeLaurentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Mongrel need to be multi-threaded at all if you're working with > Rails applications?
No. > If all 8 mongrels are busy, I believe Lighty retries the cycle a few > times. So, who needs threads? I'm guessing this is a naive > question, but I'd appreciate it if you'd set me straight. evented_mongrel still queues the request, but it does so without creating any threads, so there isn't the thread related RAM growth. > Once I get a breather in my release schedule, I plan to look at a > switch to evented mongrel. Performance benchmarks + community > feedback looks very good. But I still need to get a better grasp on > how it works + the differences from standard mongrel. My intention is that switching to evented_mongrel or swiftiplied_mongrel is transparent from the perspective of the application (or whatever is running inside a mongrel handler). Kirk Haines _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
