Re: [tlug] Re: [RFC] Outline of the fast HTTP talk

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2008-11-07 09:29 +0000 (Fri), John Fremlin wrote:

> Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com> writes:
> 
> > ...mongrel processes *all* requests in a single Ruby process. Thus,
> > if you have eight cores and are running only mongrel, seven of those
> > cores will be idle, no matter what the load on your server.
> 
> In this very artificial test where there is very limited work being done
> in the Ruby process and processing the HTTP headers can (if I understand
> correctly) be handled in Mongrels threads, I'm not sure that's true.

Err...what's not true? I think you agree that one Mongrel process will
never use more than one core.

By the way, as I mentioned at the Ninjava nijikai last night,
unfortunately I can't make it to the meeting. Ironically, it's because
of the amount of time I spent this week dealing with performance tuning
of a fairly heavily loaded web site.

cjs
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