posted on 2009-04-03 - amd.im/wwce
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That's all I have to say. Passenger/mod_rails is so much faster and more competent at serving my RoR code than my hacked together mongrel/nginx scheme that I had before.
My ram usage spikes much more when visitors hit the site, but never starts swapping. The increased ram usage is more than worth it for the HUGELY increased speed that I'm seeing by the dynamic mongrel management.
Even better, when the visitors leave (as often happens), the ram usage settles down to the same place it did with my nginx and mongrel combo.
Enjoy the increased speed and stability AMDavidson.com visitors.
amdavidson.com is a simple blog run by Andrew Davidson, a manufacturing engineer with a blogging habit. He sometimes posts 140 character tidbits, shares photos, and saves links. You can also see posts dating back to 2005.