From: Corey Jewett <ml@...>
Date: 2007-08-25T16:22:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread safety techniques for server applications?


On Aug 25, 2007, at 12:05 AM, dtuttle1@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Aaron,
> I'd like to learn more in this area too, but here are my thoughts:
> The web servers, at least mongrel, are single-threaded. Mongrel queues
> requests and feeds them to the app sequentially. To get concurrency
> you have to run multiple instances of mongrel. In this situation there
> are no thread safety issues because there's only one thread per
> process.

I don't believe this is true of mongrel itself, but rather of the  
Rails handler in mongrel.

Corey