Comments on: Benchmark: Passenger (mod_rails) vs Mongrel vs Thin

By: Robert. Tsai

Robert. Tsai — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:22:11 +0000

Great work on the load test. I had a question about running passenger on vmware guest. Has any one seen the performance on a virtual machine yet? I’m just asking that beacuse we ran a load test with 200 concurrent connections against Thin on a Centos 5.4 VM and it failed. We are seeing high CPU usage per Thin. We tried setting running 5 Thins to 15 Thins and the load was very high compared to the app running natively. I want to see if anyone else is seeing the same performance degradation as we are seeing. I’m hoping Passenger would give us better performance.

By: brian

brian — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 20:20:30 +0000

If this means I don’t have to deal with Mongrel memory leaks any more I’m all for it. Even if the performance was a little off it would be worth it. I’m doing some testing now of Mongrel 1.1.5 on Ubuntu 8.04 on a VPS with 400Meg of Ram. Basically mongrel eats up all the memory and kills the vps, even with no load!
My personal opinion is that the Rails community needs to solve the deployment problem for higher load environments in the near future or RoR will just be an alternative to PHP and won’t compete in the broader market with Java or .Net. I agree with another person that jRuby could be the best option long term. Maybe mod_rails can save the day for lower volume VPS hosting. Hopefully it does. After I switch over I’ll post what I see from our experience. Thank you to the mod_rails team for the great working trying to solve this problem.

By: Vikki Chan

Vikki Chan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 04:25:29 +0000

我想了解一下，配置的apache+mod_rails是否可以同时支持两个ruby应用的运行。

By: Easy and robust deployments of Ruby On Rails applications on Apache webservers - eXpand yOur cReativity

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:10:00 +0000

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By: eXpand yOur cReativity » Blog Archive » Easy and robust deployments of Ruby On Rails applications on Apache webservers

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 06:53:17 +0000

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Live in code | mod_rails 安装配置 [Ubuntu版] — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:41:00 +0000

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By: lix

lix — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:08:12 +0000

hmm hmm the problem is that you measure the client performance with such a test like ab, check the system load etc. on the client host….

By: Dinooz

Dinooz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:41:30 +0000

I wonder how does Memory performance reflect on those benchmarks… what is more efficient in the server a lots of Thin processes… or a single Apache with many childs…

By: Scott Motte » Blog Archive » Passenger (mod_rails) versus Thin on nginx

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:35:00 +0000

[...] a good post on Passenger versus Thin, and here is a better benchmark that includes thin on [...]

By: Skiptree Thoughts » Blog Archive » mod_rails vs. thin vs. ebb

Skiptree Thoughts » Blog Archive » mod_rails vs. thin vs. ebb — Sat, 24 May 2008 03:32:22 +0000

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