[Mongrel] Do I really need a cluster?

[Erik Hetzner]

At Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:48:06 -0500,
John Almberg <jalmberg at identry.com> wrote:
> Kirk beat me to the answer, but my answer is the same.
>
> While this might be a theoretical problem, it's not an actual
> problem. Particularly since mongrel is only serving up the first
> request of each page view -- the HTML. Apache handles subsequent
> requests for images, javascript, css files, etc.
>
> So even in the rare case of simultaneous page requests, the second
> request would only have to wait milliseconds.
>
> Again, this wouldn't work for eBay, but it works fine for my size
> clients.

A word of caution. If you are do not test your app in a setup in which
requests are not sequential, you will (will, not might) run into
concurrency issues if you need to transfer to a multiple-process or
multi-threaded setup.

best,
Erik Hetzner
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