[Radiant] Mongrel Cluster vs. Apache-FCGI

[Ruben D. Orduz]

Hi folks,

I recently got my rails app to serve with a mongrel cluster with a
balancer in front of it and Apache Proxying in front of that. That app
used to run on rails-Apache-FCGI straight and I really can't tell the
difference performance-wise. Granted, the point of a cluster and
balancer is for heavy loads not just one request, but there's a bit
diminishing returns going on with low traffic websites (< 5K page
views/week). Has any of you done any actual performance analysis on
rails-mongrel cluster vs rails-apache-fcgi? Just curious.