wait... i think i figured it out. set the number of mongrel threads to 1 when you start up mongrel (via -n 1). seems like this should be the default when you have a proxy in front of mongrel.
On Oct 19, 5:30 pm, famoseagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is almost the easiest bug in the world to reproduce. > > 1) set up 3 mongrels behind ngnix. > 2) add 'sleep 20' to one controller action > 3) open up 1 browser window and hit the sleep action > 4) open up another browser window and hit any other action over and > over > 5) watch as every 3rd request hangs > > this may seem like a contrived test but when that 'sleep 20' is > actually a long running db query you'll see very quickly how it can > adversely affect your site. > > the problem seems to be that nginx will keep forwarding requests to > mongrel since mongrel will happily accept them. the mutexed rails > thread is hanging and not mongrel. you can also reproduce this issue > with apache and mod_proxy_balancer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
