i found thin seems to run faster then mongrel in my app. just my 2 cents. nayeem
2009/7/2 Kuros Yalpani <rails-mailing-l...@andreas-s.net> > > Roderick van Domburg wrote: > > Kuros Yalpani wrote: > >> Hi, my video sharing website (politube.org) that I developed with > rails, > >> runs on lighttpd/fcgi (I know it is obsolete by now) and is severely > >> under load and regularly blocks because the lighttpd process chews up > >> 50% of RAM (1GB). > >> > >> So now I want to move the system to a new server with 8GB, 64bit , > >> Quad core processor (intel i7 920) but I am not sure if hyperthreading > >> will really do anything better. Even if I switched to mongrel, would it > >> be able to leverage the Quadcore architecture? > > > > Please note that hyperthreading (which is a technique for splitting up > > one procesor into two virtual processors) is not the same as application > > threading. > > > > Whether hyperthreading will be beneficial is highly dependent on your > > workload. Benchmarks for your application are your friend. > > > > In general, I would say, hyperthreading will be beneficial if you have a > > workload that is a composite of two distinct and mutually exclusive > > loads, such as video processing on the one hand and I/O on the other. If > > the loads are not mutually exclusive then you will have a lot more cache > > misses and hyperthreading may actually be detrimental. > > > > -- > > Roderick van Domburg > > http://www.nedforce.com > > actually, this would presumably answer my question, since if > hyperthreading is emulating multiple cpu's then the multiprocess > architecture of fcgi would benefit from that. However, I am not sure on > how load "mutual exclusivity" affects cache usage. Do you mean a kind of > instruction cache? Any Idea on how mongrel vs lighttpd behaves? > > thanks > > Kuros > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > -- cashflowclublondon.co.uk ("`-''-/").___..--''"`-._ `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
