[Mongrel] [ANN] Another mongrel_cluster prerelease 1.0.1.1

[Matt Zukowski]

Just a suggestion, but maybe the stop command should wait until all the
servers are actually down before it exits. What Michael describes below
is a fairly frustrating aspect of using mongrel_cluster. The restart
process right now kind of sucks, and I suspect that making it behave
more gracefully would make a lot of people happy.

Michael A. Schoen wrote:
> Bradley Taylor wrote:
>> Reviewing the code (Zed correct me if I'm wrong), stop and restart both 
>> call the same stop method. The graceful handling of an in-progress 
>> request is the same.
> 
> Yes, and that handling works for me. The problem is that a stop;start 
> fails when the stop takes a bit, whereas a stop-with-restart will always 
> be just fine.
> 
> What happens now when I do a cluster restart is that some of my Mongrels 
> end up just dead, as they actually stop (gracefully) after the start has 
> already been called for. I could resolve this using a forced stop, but 
> I'm looking for a more, not less, graceful process.
> 
>> Restart also has some funky semantics when used in a cluster where it 
>> reuses the the command line arguments. This means that you can't modify 
>> the cluster configuration and apply the changes with a restart. The 
>> standard behavior of a linux (freebsd, etc) service is that 
>> configuration changes are reread on restart (apache, mysql,etc). So for 
>> the purposes of mongrel_cluster, restart == stop;start. Running a single 
>> mongrel with its own configuration file would behave as expected.
> 
> Ah, so I understand why you made the change to have a cluster restart do 
> a stop;start. We don't change the cluster configuration, so we aren't 
> hit by that problem.
> 
> But would it be possible to get an alternative command added that does 
> do an actual restart? If not, no worries, I'll hack it in on my end.
> 
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