Hi - I''ve got a pretty popular Rails app on a Mongrel cluster with Apache and mod_proxy_balancer. How do I decide how many Mongrel servers to put in the cluster? I don''t have stats for the number of requests hitting the server yet, but I should have that data soon. The server has 2GB of RAM and has to do a lot of work with RMagick, including generating and storing lots of images. My predecessors put all of the image storage on the filesystem, and I won''t be able to change that right away. Any & all help massively appreciated. -- Giles Bowkett Blog: gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: gilesgoatboy.org
Whoops. Found this: mongrel.rubyforge.org/docs/how_many_mongrels.html Sorry! On 7/1/07, Giles Bowkett <gilesb at gmail.com> wrote:> Hi - I''ve got a pretty popular Rails app on a Mongrel cluster with > Apache and mod_proxy_balancer. How do I decide how many Mongrel > servers to put in the cluster? > > I don''t have stats for the number of requests hitting the server yet, > but I should have that data soon. The server has 2GB of RAM and has to > do a lot of work with RMagick, including generating and storing lots > of images. My predecessors put all of the image storage on the > filesystem, and I won''t be able to change that right away. > > Any & all help massively appreciated. > > -- > Giles Bowkett > > Blog: gilesbowkett.blogspot.com > Portfolio: gilesgoatboy.org >-- Giles Bowkett Blog: gilesbowkett.blogspot.com Portfolio: gilesgoatboy.org