Re: Scaling
Matthew Weigel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.fastcgi.devel |
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Jeremy Wilkins wrote: > Hi, > > I'm busy looking at options for deploying an rails app we are > developing. I've set up apps before with a FastCgiServer line like > > FastCgiServer /path/to/app/public/dispatch.fcgi -processes x > > to preload a certain number of instances of the app. Does this > actually limit the number of instances - or is it just a base line? My reading is that 'static' FastCGI servers - what 'FastCgiServer' sets up - have a fixed number of processes that run. If you don't use '-processes' then that fixed number is 1. Individual FastCGI applications like PHP may manage multiple worker processes, and have their own logic to control the number of worker processes dynamically according to load. If you want dynamic growing and shrinking of the application process pool (managed by mod_fastcgi rather than externally), look at 'dynamic' FastCGI servers - what 'FastCgiConfig' manages. -- Matthew Weigel hacker [email protected] ___________________________________ fastcgi-developers mailing list http://fastcgi.com/fastcgi-developers/