Just a note for anyone else, like me, who kept hitting this forum entry while googling around. We replaced highwire successfully with balance (http://www.inlab.de/balanceng/).
Had to change one of the default build constants (MAXCHANNELS) from 16 to 32, but after which its' working great against our pool of 10 mongrels. Running as follows configures it to feed one request at a time round robin t each free mongrel instance unless they're all concurrently busy at which point it switches to sending them round robin to all 10 a-la mod_proxy_balancer. /usr/local/bin/balance -M -b 127.0.0.1 7050 127.0.0.1:8000:1 127.0.0.1:8001:1 127.0.0.1:8002:1 127.0.0.1:8003:1 127.0.0.1:8004:1 127.0.0.1:8005:1 127.0.0.1:8006:1 127.0.0.1:8007:1 127.0.0.1:8008:1 127.0.0.1:8009:1 ! 127.0.0.1:8000 127.0.0.1:8001 127.0.0.1:8002 127.0.0.1:8003 127.0.0.1:8004 127.0.0.1:8005 127.0.0.1:8006 127.0.0.1:8007 127.0.0.1:8008 127.0.0.1:8009 So far its' been working very well. Status from first afternoon of use are as follows: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/balance status balance at 127.0.0.1:7050 GRP Type # S ip-address port c totalc maxc sent rcvd 0 RR 0 ENA 127.0.0.1 8000 0 1972 1 1534959 17503343 0 RR 1 ENA 127.0.0.1 8001 0 2122 1 1604954 38727099 0 RR 2 ENA 127.0.0.1 8002 0 2220 1 6587106 21329912 0 RR 3 ENA 127.0.0.1 8003 1 1412 1 6868618 16225686 0 RR 4 ENA 127.0.0.1 8004 0 1952 1 2376831 21449204 0 RR 5 ENA 127.0.0.1 8005 1 1564 1 12380050 18871952 0 RR 6 ENA 127.0.0.1 8006 0 1894 1 5663904 21877505 0 RR 7 ENA 127.0.0.1 8007 0 2025 1 22239136 20035666 0 RR 8 ENA 127.0.0.1 8008 1 1787 1 8410442 21476800 0 RR 9 ENA 127.0.0.1 8009 0 1914 1 11913518 18254808 1 RR 0 ENA 127.0.0.1 8000 0 231 0 116116 1439980 1 RR 1 ENA 127.0.0.1 8001 0 232 0 150685 2026796 1 RR 2 ENA 127.0.0.1 8002 0 232 0 115881 638747 1 RR 3 ENA 127.0.0.1 8003 0 231 0 117039 1072487 1 RR 4 ENA 127.0.0.1 8004 0 233 0 121611 1491177 1 RR 5 ENA 127.0.0.1 8005 0 233 0 120231 1162390 1 RR 6 ENA 127.0.0.1 8006 0 231 0 4665602 1843309 1 RR 7 ENA 127.0.0.1 8007 0 229 0 118730 1373138 1 RR 8 ENA 127.0.0.1 8008 0 229 0 114949 1497304 1 RR 9 ENA 127.0.0.1 8009 0 230 0 119177 1224900 Eddy wrote:http://www.inlab.de/balanceng/ >> btw, I'm not surprised highwire isn't talked about more. > > A response from the Highwire guy: >>> > > I'm afraid that we haven't been using Highwire for a while now. That > doesn't mean that the problem Highwire was designed to address > doesn't still exist (it very definitely does), but we have decided to > follow a different solution. We have divided our mongrel cluster into > two halves - a "normal" cluster on which the common "fast" operations > take place and an "admin" cluster on which occasional "slow" things > take place. Very soon, we plan to take this further and move the > "slow" cluster onto an entirely separate server. > > That means, I'm afraid, that we haven't got a patch for the problem > you mention because we've not developed it any further. Having said > that, Highwire really couldn't be simpler, so if you want to take on > creating a patch, or even ownership of the Highwire project, please > be my guest! Let me know if you're interested. > > BTW - you might be interested in a couple of blog articles we've > recently written on Ruby on Rails: > > http://about.82ask.com/news/wizardry/ > > ------------------------------------------------ > Paul Butcher > CTO > 82ASK > Mobile: +44 (0) 7740 857648 > Main: +44 (0) 1223 309080 > Fax: +44(0) 1223 309082 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > AIM: paulrabutcher > Skype: paulrabutcher > LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulbutcher > ------------------------------------------------ > -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Deploying Rails" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-deployment?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
