I suggest peeking at the lighttpd-config package I have made to look at how you can manage many unique instances of lighttpd in a virtual host environment.
http://rubyforge.org/projects/lighttpd-config I have the configuration options abstracted to the point I can deploy a new lighttpd instance in about 60 seconds. I hope to shorten this after gemifying the package and having a setup script to configure the variables through CLI prompts. If you are game to do this, I would be happy to commit and credit ;) -Nb ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nathaniel S. H. Brown http://nshb.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas > Sent: January 9, 2006 8:03 PM > To: rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > Subject: [Rails-core] Re: spinner/spawner: is it really > necessary to loadthe Rails environment? > > Rick Olson wrote: > >>The spinner process is running all the time, and because it > has loaded > >>and initialized the whole Rails environment (boot.rb etc.) > it uses a > >>lot of RAM. The same goes for the spawner process. It is > started every > >>#{interval} seconds, and because it loads the Rails > environment every > >>time - this can put a considerable load on a small server. > IMO neither > >>spinner nor spawner do really need the Rails environment, > all they do > >>is to call external scripts. > > > > > > I deploy apps on a shared hosting server without the spinner, and > > everything is fine. I just use the facilities provided by Lighttpd. > > I'm doing this at the moment, but I would prefer to be able > to restart Lighttpd and the various FastCGI servers independently. > > _______________________________________________ > Rails-core mailing list > Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core > _______________________________________________ Rails-core mailing list Rails-core@lists.rubyonrails.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails-core
