Category Archives: Mongrel

Timing out Rails from Mongrel

By ckline | Published: November 15, 2007

While we’re on the timeout tip, I’d like to talk about a fail-safe timeout for mongrel rails. We’ve talked about making sure that net/http and memcache-client behave, but what about other slow actions? Since mongrel only processes one rails request at a time, other requests can start to pile up. In rare cases, those other [...]

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Net::HTTP @open_timeout

By | Published: November 9, 2007

We were recently fighting with some long-running requests hogging-up the single-threaded mongrel processes and causing requests to timeout. To be fair to mongrel, the only reason it is effectively single-threaded is because of Rails. Anyway, we were having a tough time figuring out how to determine where in our Rails code we were sitting there [...]

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