Comments on: mod_rails vs thin vs ebb vs mongrel

By: Arie

Arie — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 10:26:59 +0000

Thin and Mongrel are just Ruby webservers, not load balancers.

If you need a general load balancer, look at Apache2′s mod_proxy or nginx.

By: Bing

Bing — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:21:51 +0000

I didn’t understand and haven’t learned either ruby or its framework rails. But really read the mongrel and thin servers several times. are those server softwares dedicated to the ruby web application? can there be load-balancer for the web applications based upon other language?

By: vs

vs — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:03:24 +0000

vs.

By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:09:47 +0000

Good info thanks! I’m very curious to see what the memory usage was on these though??

I would happily sacrifice 10% in speed if it meant half the memory usage or something similar.

Thanks!
Brian

By: Arie

Arie — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:54:36 +0000

10000 requests with a concurrency of 10, and 10000 requests with a concurrency of 50.

By: ming

ming — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:53:28 +0000

Could you explain what means
-n 10000 -c 10
-n 10000 -c 50

Maybe some update for mod_rails + nginx?

Thx for your work!

By: Arie

Arie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:10:45 +0000

I wouldn’t recommend Apache at all for serving Thin. Nginx is a lot more efficient at serving static files and load balancing.

By: Dinooz

Dinooz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:39:37 +0000

I wonder what is the memory usage on the server, what would be more effective many Thin processes behind Apache load balancer or a single Apache with lots of child processes ???

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Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:35:05 +0000

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