On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Florian Munz wrote:
I'm currently running mod_proxy_balancer proxying to two app servers
running 6 mongrel processes each.
Unfortunately I have some slow requests in my application. Since apache
doesn't distribute the requests very clever I am getting long loading
times for some of the requests (apache sends a new requests to a mongrel
process who is busy answering another request). The problem is described
in more detail in the mongrel list:
http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-users/2006-September/001653.html
I was wondering if nginx has a smarter way of distributing the httpd
requests than apache and could help me here?
nginx can not presently limit number of simultaneous connections to
backend (however, I plan it).
I do not know ROR and Mongrel, but as I understand you may try
to route slow requests to the dedicated backends:
upstream fast {
server localhost:9001;
server localhost:9002;
server localhost:9003;
}
upstream slow {
server localhost:9004;
server localhost:9005;
server localhost:9006;
}
server {
location / {
proxy_pass http://fast;
}
location /slow {
proxy_pass http://slow;
}
}
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