[Mongrel] Again: Workaround found for request queuing vs. num_processors, accept/close

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

On Jan 23, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Simon Santoro wrote:

> On Wednesday 23 January 2008 23:03:21 Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> Actually the nginx fair balancer has been released for a while. You
>> can read up on it and get it here:
>>
>> http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpUpstreamFairModule
>
> Hmmm. I can't use a no-name web server with a load balancer that is  
> a set of
> patches for that server on our intranet production server. At the  
> first
> problem I would lose my job.


	That's too bad then, you will have to suffer on with apache i guess.  
Nginx is a lot more solid then apache is in stability and performance.  
I'm personally running over 1000 nginx daemons with absolutely no  
problems to speak of with it.

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- Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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