[LRUG] Mongrel

[Jonathan Conway]

We moved to mongrel a long time ago and it's made our lives a lot  
easier. No more
fcgi weirdness, memory leaks and fcgi processes just dying suddenly.

Unfortunately Rails isn't thread safe unlike some other Ruby web  
frameworks and because
of that you'll need more than one mongrel if you're going to be  
serving anything
substantial or doing anything that involved file uploads.

We've got two different deployment configurations going on at the  
minute, the first is Apache 2.2
proxying to mongrel though not as resource efficient, I've found it  
rock solid. The second configuration
is Nginx proxying to mongrel which we've found stable and far more  
easier on system resources than Apache.


Cheers

Jonathan


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E.jonathan at agileevolved.com
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On 23 Nov 2006, at 09:33, soledad penadés | sole wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> I am curious. Just discovered what mongrel is some days ago (no  
> kidding, and I haven't been in a bubble these last months), and I  
> wondered what do you use for deploying apps in production servers.
>
> In my hosting they used to recommend an hybrid lighttpd + apache  
> solution (apache proxying requests to lighttpd running my rails app  
> in a different port, with a subdomain), but seems that now the  
> latest trend is mongrel.
>
> The docs say rails does not perform very well concurrently and thus  
> is better to have a "cluster of mongrels". Any experience on this?
>
> The amount of memory that it can use it's kind of scaring me, even  
> if it's a very simple application that I'm thinking of, as it's a  
> shared hosting and they have a "samurai process" which kills  
> resource-consuming processes.
>
> (I was thinking of creating one of those dynamic dns's and host it  
> in my home server, but somehow I'm not fully convinced)
>
> Anyone  feels like sharing experiences in deploying rails apps?
>
>
> Sole the Rails newbie :)
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