Hey, We (Pivotal Labs) have bee experimenting with Mongrel and Rails Edge to see what happens if we remove the mutex around the dispatch to Rails, our goal being to reduce memory usage in virtualized environments where memory is tight. We're pretty happy with the results and ready to put together a real patch for Mongrel to allow users to run Rails this way. So, we're ready to patch Mongrel to support this.
It probably doesn't make sense to just remove the handler's mutex around dispatch as this could lead to num-processors threads in rails concurrently. Probably we'll want to limit that separately. I'm thinking we should patch the handler to optionally allow threading, then make mongrel_rails support this + a limit on how many requests to process concurrenty. I'm wondeing what kind of patch you would want, and whether anyone has suggestions. Thanks, pt. _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
