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Hey all Im working on improving the speed of my application. Ive taken on board everything that has been said on this forum so far, im using httperf to benchmark and try to improve performance. However, I have some question marks over how best to go about improving performance in certain areas.... With no caching or such like deployed the application runs at an rather slow 35 - 38 req/s. A

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Hey all First off, ive just switched to using mongrel_cluster and pound - its working a treat! Its far far faster than fast-cgi: operations that took a few seconds on fcgi now are almost instant with mongrel. Excellent! However, I''ve been trying to decide how best to utilise my equipment most effectively. I have a dual pro 3Ghz Xenon with 2GB RAM, and the server will be running a few