Brian, I found your patch while looking for a solution that we've needed to decrease startup times, take advantage of COW, have completely graceful restarts ( < 0.1 seconds downtime max, new server must be ready to immediately start processing requests before the old server is booted out ), and scheduling of garbage collection between results.
Your patch turned out to be a very good fit for all 4 of these arenas :) Though, I did need to do some refactoring and additional work on what you've started. The main parts of my improvements are the "-R" flag (Mongrel::UnixDispatchServer only), graceful shutdowns, and ability to specify pre/post fork hooks. The -R flag is like a hostile takeover restart. A new server boots up, gets all loaded and ready to go, then sends a TERM signal to the old process. The old process IMMEDIATELY stops listening on it's port, and waits for it's children to finish their requests. As soon as they are all done, the server shuts down. My changes are available here in my fork of mongrel: http://github.com/timcharper/mongrel/tree/super_cow_mongrel Here's the script I use to start up mongrel: http://pastie.org/245416 I'd still like to see some additional cleanup and get some input on the changes I've made. Additionally, I did all this while working for my company Lead Media Partners, so they should get a plug for this contribution. Peace and harmony, Tim -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
