From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-05T02:57:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Using fork to conserve memory

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Daniel DeLorme wrote:

>
> Ok, so from the answers so far I gather that something like this hasn't 
> really been done before. Ara's acgi was quite similar to what I was hoping 
> for, except without the concurrent connections.
>
> I Guess I'll just have to scratch my own itch.
>

it'd be great if you wanted to hack on acgi.  my plans were to

   - re-write using apache-apr so the c code would be platform independant

   - support multiple backends.  my plan was going to be to setup say 3
     listeners and simply choose them at random when a request came in.  this
     should be very simply to code and scale linearly with the number of
     servers.

the cool thing about acgi, of course, is that it's 100% web server independant
and doesn't even require special config.  it's also totally transparent to the
rails app: which would merely switch FCGI -> ACGI.  the simplicity means that
one could ftp upload a rails app to ANY server so long as it had cgi support
and a rails app would be fast.  no config.  no fastcgi.  no mongrel.  nothing
needed.

-a
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