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Hello all, Are you aware of the rails ActionController::Base.allow_concurrency option ? If this option is true, rails is able to process simultaneous multiples actions. It appears that rails is thread-safe (if the user application is), and that this option is mostly unknown. Webrick take care of this option in rails-1.1.2/lib/webrick_server.rb at line 80 : REQUEST_MUTEX.lock unless

We are *days* away from the official 0.3.13 release, which will be followed quickly by 0.4 code named Enterprisey Edition 1.2. This latest pre-release update closes off the last of the annoying bugs, and adds one very nasty feature people should check out before we release. Read about Katanas below. ** This release doesn''t have win32 yet. That''ll be uploaded Monday. ** WHAT

Hello Zed ! Do you knows or plan a way to spawn mongrel processes on demand ? I''m studying options to build an affordable but solid shared hosting solution. You wrote something very promising in your "NEXT STEPS", A combination of the ''"mostly C version'' and the mongrel_cluster replacement would be an elegant method to save much RAM on servers (until

Hello Zed ! I''ve experimented a simple but limited performance tweak in the mongrel rails loader. With the following apache 2.2 mod proxy loadbalancer setup : # Redirect all non-static requests to cluster RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ balancer://mongrel_cluster%{REQUEST_URI} [P,QSA,L] We can assume that mongrel is called only when the

Hello Everyone, Francois Simond inadvertently found a way to replicate a rare but deadly bug right as I was working up the official release of Mongrel 0.3.13. This bug only happened to a few people, but thanks to the wonderful fuzzing tool Apache Bench[1] he could replicate the slow select starvation people were seeing. TESTING This bug is now fixed in the current pre-release, and I''d

Hi, I just found something weird for mongrel with static files. Performance endlessly decreases if mongrel serve static files from simultaneous requests : Here is the test setup: Ruby on Rails Mongrel (tested with 1.3.12.4 and 1.3.13-pre installed today) Ubuntu dapper, compiled ruby 1.8.4. http client : while true; do ab -n 1000 -c 30 http://localhost:3000/ 2>/dev/null | grep

...ld call "classically beautiful", =) and it's undoubtedly got a few bugs.. It is still being worked on, but it seems to have just enough features at this point that other people might want to start hearing about it. If anyone is interested, please come and try it out. -- Nicolas Simonds 763.551.6517 nic@tricord.com Computer Science - n. - A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. --Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Computer Contradictionary

...ld call "classically beautiful", =) and it's undoubtedly got a few bugs.. It is still being worked on, but it seems to have just enough features at this point that other people might want to start hearing about it. If anyone is interested, please come and try it out. -- Nicolas Simonds 763.551.6517 nic@tricord.com Computer Science - n. - A study akin to numerology and astrology, but lacking the precision of the former and the success of the latter. --Stan Kelly-Bootle, The Computer Contradictionary