For this purpose, no, not necessarily. But it is always good to have more than a few instances if you can spare the RAM (merb doesn't take up that much ram anyway).
You'll have to deploy, experiment and see if they can handle the load. Regards, Ahsan / highandwild On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:19 PM, rsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you're saying if I use deferred actions like this (with Mongrel): > > Merb::Config[:deferred_actions] = ["/uploads/create", "/reports/ > longaction"] > > The /uploads/create and /reports/longaction will be served from a > newly spawned thread. > > And when using this I shouldn't start many Merb instances? > > Thanks Ahsan. > > > On Oct 14, 1:05 pm, "Ahsan Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I had a similar concern (with web service calls that were taking long), > > which I'm currently addressing with deferred actions: > > > > http://brainspl.at/articles/2008/04/18/deferred-requests-with-merb-eb... > > > > Here's my thread: *http://tinyurl.com/3lufww*<http://tinyurl.com/3lufww> > > > > - Ahsan / highandwild > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:31 PM, rsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I use Merb to handle image uploads and resizing images, before they > > > are send to Amazon S3. In front of merb sits Apache as a proxy > > > balancer server and Mongrel. The resizing of the images can take quite > > > a while (up to 10-20 seconds for really large images). > > > > > What is not clear to me if starting more Merb instances (we run 4 > > > now), say 10 or 20 would help us scaling our upload service. I read > > > everywhere that Merb is multi threaded, but I'm not sure if Merb > > > itself can start different processes with large file uploads, etc.. > > > > > So will our load balance be better if we start more Merb instances or > > > does it not make any difference and could we also start one Merb > > > instance? > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
