Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-21 Thread Greg Gard
yes it does willy. thanks. and i share your exasperation with our situation. rails/mongrel is a pain AND we have tons of very slow/cpu intensive legacy asp reporting code that is mission critical. we are trying to undo the sins of our past (namely taking microsoft's word for it...sorry any .net fan

Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:05:16AM -0400, Greg Gard wrote: > thanks holger, > > i did some research and was able to find more on mongrel and queuing. > so that helps to clarify. i am unsure what i will do viz checking in > the end as we have some long running requests that are frankly the > bane o

Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-20 Thread Greg Gard
thanks holger, i did some research and was able to find more on mongrel and queuing. so that helps to clarify. i am unsure what i will do viz checking in the end as we have some long running requests that are frankly the bane of my existence and complicate load balancing. we need to refactor as pa

Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-20 Thread Holger Just
Hi Greg, On 2010-03-20 6:52 AM, Greg Gard wrote: > i remember somewhere in the archives mention of a plan to make health > checks get queued like any other request. did that happen in 1.4.x > branch with all the work to health checks. i searched the archives, > but didn't turn up what i remembered

Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-20 Thread Greg Gard
with this? obviously, it would be nice to have either queued health checks OR (and even better) some kind of app server for rails that allows you to have more than a single connection. obviously, mongrel_1 better stay up or i lose all servers in cluster. not idea. anyway, sorry for the extended emai

Re: queued health checks?

2010-03-20 Thread Greg Gard
an update. i have set my servers to use a rails method and have tested that on several long running requests (e.g. 60+ sec) my mongrel gets marked down on check rise 1 fall 3 inter 20s. i can live with that i guess. it makes my stats page look like a warzone with servers getting marked down and mis

queued health checks?

2010-03-19 Thread Greg Gard
hi, i remember somewhere in the archives mention of a plan to make health checks get queued like any other request. did that happen in 1.4.x branch with all the work to health checks. i searched the archives, but didn't turn up what i remembered. my use case is rails/mongrel with maxconn = 1 so i