Re: Re: How Far Can An Rails App Scale on Textdrive

Robby Russell
Mon, 03 Oct 2005 02:54:08 -0000

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 16:14 -0700, Ben Bleything wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005, Jorge Sousa wrote:
> > Speaking for myself i own a VCII account. Only went there because of
> > Rails. But most of the time everything is too slow. Apache proxying to
> > lighttpd crawls even for a simple plain login page (and have been
> > following forun post on how to squeeze some more perfo. from
> > configuration) . The best solution is to use the assigned port number
> > in the url which is an ugly solution. The same pages on the same
> > server but done in php are much faster and easy to setup.
>
> The slow login problems is a problem between the way Apache proxies
> keep-alive requests and lighttpd handles said requests.  I''ll
betcha if
> you set the following line in your lighttpd config, you''ll see
better
> performance.  It fixed every slowness issue I was having:
>
> server.max-keep-alive-requests = 0

Woah. Thanks Ben! I had the same issue with Lighttpd stuff through
Apache proxies. Not now. :-)

-Robby

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