[Radiant] Mongrel Cluster vs. Apache-FCGI

[John W. Long]

Ruben D. Orduz wrote:
> 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.

I'm not aware of any official performance testing for a rails-mongrel 
cluster vs rails-apache-fcgi.

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