isn't rails 2.2 / edge supposed to have threading built in ? or am I missing something here ?
also mongrel can handle multiple threads well . In fact I have tried it in mongrel handlers and it works very well (for 75 concurrent requests each taking 5 minutes to complete). On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29 PM, Parker Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
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