Ezra- thanks for your feedback. My greater question is: is it worth it, in the long run? Or is it too negligible?
/Cody On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezmob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:05 PM, Cody Caughlan wrote: > >> In looking at a running mongrel process in strace and at the code >> itself Mongrel will always look for a file under "public" (with and >> without a .html extension). When those filesystem lookups fail, it >> then passes the request to Rails. >> >> So my question is, would you get more performance by disabling this >> lookup and just handing it off to Rails from the get go? >> >> I understand that in development, the current behavior is desired as >> Mongrel is acting as the primary HTTP server. But in production, with >> a HTTP server like Apache or nginx in front and configured to serve >> static files, then it might make sense to not have Mongrel concern >> itself with looking for static files. >> >> Maybe the OS caches those filesystem calls (stat cache?) and this >> would be a crazy premature optimization. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> /Cody >> > > > You should be able to alter the railshandler to not do these lookups > when a config option is set. Merb uses rack middleware to do the static > pages and that can be easily turned off in production. I believe latest > rails does this as well and maybe you can disable these checks with rack in > rails as well? > > Cheers- > > Ezra Zygmuntowicz > e...@engineyard.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
