Thanks Ezra, a clear answer to my question. I'll also take a look at Nanite.
// On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ahsan Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
