[Mongrel] mongrel_cluster, start on boot, stale pids

[Jos Backus]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:51:35AM -0800, Jeremy Kemper wrote:
> Mongrel works great with process supervision. We use runit
> extensively; it has eliminated all the pidfile & deployment headaches
> discussed here.
 
So how does this work? What watches the multiple mongrels running in the
foreground? Running each mongrel process as a separate service is ugly imo, it
would be much nicer to have a supervised multi_mongrel controller (that's the
idea described in the Thin feature request).

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Jos Backus
jos at catnook.com