We did this on "accident" on our site, and the performance hit is horrible. You might not notice it when you're not getting a lot of traffic, but when you do, the performance hit is really awful. Each mongrel needs to have its own log file and log only the messages you absolutely need (which is pretty much true for every web server).
Cheers, Kevin Lawver On Feb 5, 2008 2:06 PM, John Joseph Bachir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks. > > Using mongrel_rails, Is it possible to have multiple mongrel instances > write to the same log file? I suppose that implementing this might > incur a performance hit since each mongrel would need to lock and > unlock the file in order to not weave the log messages together in an > unreadable stream? Or perhaps all the log messages are single-line > anyway. > > Thanks, > john > > -- > John Joseph Bachir > http://blog.johnjosephbachir.org > http://lyceum.ibiblio.org > http://dissent.cc > http://jjb.cc > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Kevin Lawver http://lawver.net _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
