well i think i found the problem... I think it's my browser. I could not open more than 1 connection with firefox, but if i opened msie and opera on the url, the data came streaming on down simultaneously.
sorry for the false alarm! -joe On 12/5/06, Joseph McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. I'm just trying to understand why/where mongrel is blocking when > more than 1 request comes in for a particular uri. I'm thinking there > may be something different with this particular httphandler. Or maybe > not... maybe mongrel can't service more than 1 request for a > particular uri at a time. > > It's interesting that more than 1 can run at a time, you just need to > associate them with different uri's. I'd like to find out why that > is, and if that's changeable. > > -joe > > On 12/5/06, Vishnu Gopal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you read that wikipedia article, you'll note that Comet actually does > > want this to happen: one connection to be kept alive. Mongrel afai > > understand it is not meant to be used with keep-alive-ish sort of > > connections. Polling (via AJAX) would more often than not serve your > > purpose, and if it doesn't, a switch to Java or Cometd seems to be the way > > to go. > > > > Vish > > > > > > On 12/6/06, Joseph McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I understand that rails is not thread safe, but this is not using > > > rails or any part of rails. It just sets up a simple handler. but > > > registering that handler seems to allow only one instance of that > > > handler to run at a time. > > > > > > > > > On 12/5/06, David Vrensk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 12/5/06, Joseph McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I ran the code, and it worked just as Christopher explained. The one > > > > > thing I don't understand is why mongrel can only handle 1 connection > > > > > at a time. I thought that mongrel used a thread per connection. > > > > > > > > > > > > The simple answer: Mongrel is multithreaded, but Rails is not > > thread-safe. > > > > See question two in the FAQ: > > > > http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/faq.html > > > > > > > > /David > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mongrel-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
