From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2005-04-09T07:29:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Anyone try the new fcgi-0.8.6 yet?

Thursday wrote:

> Looks like fcgi-0.8.6 was released a few days ago here:
> 
> http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/fcgi/
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else tried using it and found it stable enough
> for production use.

I have abused the _heck_ out of FCGI with two of the three patches that
comprise the 0.8.5 to 0.8.6 changes, pushing millions of requests through
it as fast as I could, and it now exhibits good stability, good
performance, and flat memory usage.

I have, to date, been running mod_ruby for most of my production
installations, but I am making a shift to FCGI now, as it's faster and
offers much greater scalability for me, and with the recent patches, I have
no worries about stability in a production environent.

It is currently being used in one fairly important application in the
financial market I work in, and in the next few months will see deployment
into a number of other applications, some of which could be quite large.

I definitely think the FCGI code needs some work work, but I'll expound on
that in a different thread on the FCGI gem.


Kirk Haines