Mike,
That sounds similar to a problem I experienced last week. I'm running
apache with mongrel on a windows machine.
It's not a definitive solution, and I am new to apache/mongrel, but
with that important caveat out of the way I can say that I found
playing with the TTL and timeout parameters in apache.conf had a
positive effect.
The downside is that some long-running queries may get a proxy timeout
message from Apache. Since I'm using caching, this is not a serious
problem - the next request for the same data usually succeeds.
<Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster>
BalancerMember http://someip max=5 timeout=55 ttl=90 acquire=60
</Proxy>
I also assigned a value to ProxyTimeout in the Virtualhost section of
apache.conf. Comments are from the Apache documentation.
<VirtualHost someip:port>
#This is useful when you have a slow/buggy appserver which hangs, and
you would rather just return a timeout and fail gracefully instead of
waiting however long it takes the server to return.
ProxyTimeout 90
</VirtualHost>
Good luck,
G u i W e i n m a n n
A L P H A B E T W A R E
On 2/14/08, Erik Hetzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:46:12 -0600,
>
> "Michael Engelhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello -
> >
> > I'm new to setting up a mongrel cluster and ran into a question while doing
> > some simple performance testing.
> >
> > I'm using Apache 2.2 as a proxy/load balancer to multiple mongrel instances
> > (for this test on the same box - a small EC2 compute unit). I setup the
> > cluster with 5 mongrel instances.
> >
>
> > […]
>
> In your apache.conf, add the max & (maybe) acquire settings to each
> balancer member.
>
> <Proxy balancer://mongrel_cluster>
> BalancerMember http://127.0.0.1:12345 max=1 acquire=1
> […]
> </Proxy>
>
> See:
>
> <http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2007-October/004145.html>
>
> best,
>
> Erik Hetzner
>
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