From: George Moschovitis <george.moschovitis@...>
Date: 2006-01-20T23:32:19+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.0 -- A Fast As Hell Mostly Ruby Web Server

Looks interesting ;-D Thanks!

-g.

On 1/20/06, Zed Shaw <zedshaw@zedshaw.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is an announce for Mongrel, a mostly Ruby webserver.  I just
> started it as I was trying to work on solutions for people deploying
> Ruby web applications, and already it's pretty damn fast.    We're
> talking really really damn fast.  I mean like people won't believe me
> that it's this fast and I don't really believe it.
>
>
> INSTALL
>
> First off, you can grab it at http://www.zedshaw.com/downloads/
> mongrel-0.1.0.tar.bz2 to play with it.
>
> *** You'll need Ruby 1.8.4, but it's tested on Mac OSX and Linux at
> least. ***
>
> When you get it do:
>
>    rake
>    ruby -Ilib examples/simpletest.rb
>
> Go to http://localhost:3000/test to play with it.  Other URIs give
> you a lame "not found".
>
>
> HOW?
>
> Feel free to look at the source in lib/mongrel.rb and if you want to
> go insane you can try to grok the HTTP parser in ext/http11/*.c (not
> that bad really).
>
>
> CAN IT BAKE CHEDDAR?
>
> So far it's very light and isn't nearly capable enough, so I'm
> looking for things people want in a *simple* web app server for
> running their Ruby web applications in.  Keep in mind that I'm not
> going to be Ruby on Rails specific.  I love all you weirdos.
>
> Now for the fun (and surely flamewar generating) statistics on how it
> compares to WEBrick:
>
> WEBrick/Linux:  175 req/sec
> Mongrel/Linux:  1350 req/sec
>
> WEBrick/OSX:  5.3 req/sec
> Mongrel/OSX:  304.4 req/sec
>
> -- Both tests were a simple handler that sent back "hello!" when /
> test was accessed.  WEBrick's logging was redirected to /dev/null
> since I can't figure out how to turn it the hell off.
>
> The OSX results are pathetic and I suspect there's something
> seriously wrong with my setup since OSX does considerably worse than
> the comparable Linux machine.  But, the important thing is that
> Mongrel seems to be doing way better than WEBrick.   I'm hoping to
> keep the high performance, but don't trust my word for it, go grab
> the source and grab httperf to see if you get similar performance on
> your machines.  Hell, it might even work on Win32.
>
>
> DOWNSIDES
>
> It uses some Ruby 1.8.4 stuff and it uses a C extension for the HTTP
> parsing.  The C is all ANSI so you should be OK, but let me know if
> it don't compile somewhere.  It's also nowhere near complete, mostly
> just enough code to prove the concept.
>
>
> FEEDBACK
>
> Since I just started this, and I'm getting such great performance out
> of it already, I'm looking to get it working with Rails this weekend
> (along with SCGI fixes to keep people happy), then maybe Og+Nitro.
> I'd love for people to send me their wish list and opinions on this.
> I'm mostly motivated to write this as the answer to Java's Tomcat.
> What are your thoughts?   Too ambitious?  Not enough?
>
> I'm especially interested if you can improve the performance or
> disprove that it's actually that fast.  I still don't quite believe
> it myself.
>
> Thanks for the time, and enjoy.
>
> Zed A. Shaw
> http://www.zedshaw.com/
>
>


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