[Mongrel] random cpu spikes, EBADF errors

[Zed A. Shaw]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:53:29 +1100
Clifford Heath <clifford.heath at gmail.com> wrote:

> Surely it's preferable to just delay the accept() until there's a  
> thread to
> assign it to? That way the client sees a slow connection-establishment
> and can draw their own conclusions, including deciding how long to
> wait or whether to retry.

No, then the load balancer gets bound waiting for a response from a backend that can't respond.  This causes the load balancer to get a ton of dead sockets.

The LB should take the closed connection to mean "backend screwed, try again" and move to the next one.

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