Wow, so what kind of hardware is this happening with? Raul Rubio
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Proudman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <rubyonrails-deployment@googlegroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 1:58 PM Subject: [Rails-deploy] Re: How does Mongrel (http) work, compared to Fast(CGI)? > > That's exactly what we use. Nginx + Mongrel + Monit + F5 Load > Balancers. We had another client this last weekend do 18 million > hits at 66 megs / second using that combination. Flawless may be an > overstatement, but I'm pretty satisfied with the combo. > > -- > > Jesse Proudman > Blue Box Group, LLC > > p. +1.800.613.4305 x801 > e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Aug 20, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Jack Christensen wrote: > >> Roger Pack wrote: >>> Wondering what they did to overcome that problem... >> Perhaps monit to restart the processes that go too big? It's what I >> use. >>> Jesse Proudman wrote: >>>> We're running Hardware Load Balancers in front of nginx in front >>>> of mongrel_clusters on a site that averages 40 million hits a >>>> day. The biggest problem we've see involves memory leaks in the >>>> rails app. In a load balanced situation, that's no the end of the >>>> world, as we just run scripts to fix those problems when they >>>> crop up. Besides that, we can only rant and rave about the >>>> success of this setup. -- Jesse Proudman Blue Box Group, LLC p. >>>> +1.800.613.4305 x801 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -- Jack Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---