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Brian_Gupta_115
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Feb 03, 2008

Ruby on Rails with Mongrels behind a BigIP.

One issue I see is that Ruby on Rails is a single threaded application. Meaning that if I want to scale my traffic/connection handling capabilities, I need to run multiple Mongrel webservers running o...
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JRahm
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Feb 04, 2008
I don't think the algorithms can be nested like that, but that's an intriguing idea. I suppose you could keep the node balancing and use an array to keep track of each server's count within a pool and select the pool member in the array with the least number of connections. Not terribly efficient, though.