[Mongrel] scaling unicorn

2010-06-21 Thread snacktime
Interested in some feeback on this (does it sound right?), or maybe this might be of interest to others. We are launching a new facebook app in a couple weeks and we did some load testing over the weekend on our unicorn web cluster. The servers are 8 way xeon's with 24gb ram. Our app ended up

Re: [Mongrel] scaling unicorn

2010-06-21 Thread Eric Wong
snacktime snackt...@gmail.com wrote: Interested in some feeback on this (does it sound right?), or maybe this might be of interest to others. Hi Chris, I think you meant to post this to the mongrel-unic...@rubyforge.org list, not mongrel-users@rubyforge.org : We are launching a new facebook

Re: [Mongrel] scaling unicorn

2010-06-21 Thread James Tucker
What was the request rate and total bandwidth flowing at your peak? How far is that from your theoretical potential on the box? On 21 Jun 2010, at 16:58, snacktime wrote: Interested in some feeback on this (does it sound right?), or maybe this might be of interest to others. We are