From: David Masover <ninja@...>
Date: 2009-11-28T05:22:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby a good choice for CGI?

On Friday 27 November 2009 04:40:55 am Brian Candler wrote:
> David Masover wrote:
> >> *and* ongoing management and tuning - it handles dynamic pools of
> >> processes for you
> >
> > So does Unicorn, or maybe I'm not understanding.
> 
> http://unicorn.bogomips.org/
> 
> From reading this, and the FAQ/Philosophy, it sounds like you configure
> it with a *static* sized pool.

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

> That's a reasonable approach for many apps, whatever server you deploy
> them under. OTOH that won't work for apps which return large or infinite
> streams.

Yes, I think that's what Rainbows is for. But I haven't looked into that in 
much depth. From the readme: "We aim to support as many concurrency models as 
we can because they all suck; differently."

> Also, as far as I can tell, to use Unicorn properly requires you to use
> nginx (at least, I don't know if apache can proxy to a unix domain
> socket, and the documentation doesn't seem to mention apache)

It can also listen via TCP.

> On the plus side: you do get very fine-grained control of the
> deployment.

Yes, that was the big win for me.