From: Daniel DeLorme <dan-ml@...42.com>
Date: 2007-02-04T15:30:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

Rob Sanheim wrote:
> I'm not sure how the OP imagines these child processes would work -
> Rails doesn't really have any sort of threading model where it could
> hand out work to the child processes.  A lot of Rails isn't even
> threadsafe AFAIK.  Thats why all the current deployment recipes have
> one full rails environment per mongrel instance/fastcgi process.

I was talking about processes, not threads. The point is to use the 
copy-on-write capabilities of the OS to share the footprint of all the 
code that is loaded upfront while maintaining the independance of each 
process. i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write

Daniel