P.S Have you looked at Panda ? Its a ready made app that encodes user-uploaded videos, so perhaps you can look at the source to see how they do it...
http://pandastream.com/ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
