[Mongrel] Apache mod_proxy_balancer hang on high traffic hour

[Jason A. Hoffman]

Apache's mod_proxy_balancer module is a fully blocking module and with  
the default httpd.conf you're going to max out in the 120-160 requests/ 
second range on a decent box. You can tune up its proxying to about a  
1000 req/sec

So yes the net result is that you can really only put a couple of  
mongrels behind apache's proxy engine (about 2   "hello world" rails  
mongrels).

If you can hit mongrels directly and all is fine, but it's clogged up  
via apache ( and you're doing in the hundreds of request/sec), than  
this is the botteneck that you've hit. This at least explains the  
original poster's problem.

-Jason

On Sep 15, 2007, at 6:05 AM, "Ben Kruger" <benkruger at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are having a similar problem.  For the last 6 months everything  
> has been fine.  The last couple of weeks as our pageviews continue  
> to rise we are now facing an unresponsive Mongrel intermittently.
>
> We are running on BSD 6.2 with 4 Mongrels in the cluster.
>
> Comments are appreciated as well!
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ben
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