From: Peter Palmer <ppalmer@...>
Date: 2006-05-27T00:41:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Mongrel "loopback"l request

Peter C. Verhage wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using mongrel (the mongrel_rails wrapper to be exact) for a SOAP 
> server. One of the possible SOAP requests can trigger a Net::HTTP get 
> request to the server itself. At that time the complete server seems 
> to block. I suspect this has something to do with Ruby's non-native 
> threads, but I don't know of a way to workaround this. Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter
Hi,

This is because Mongrel ( I believe ) is single threaded. As it is 
currently running your request before it makes the SOAP call, the soap 
call will block, which of course will block your app too - causing dead 
lock. Not much you can do about this apart from setting up a cluster afaik.


Cheers,


Pete