[Mongrel] mongrel_cluster, start on boot, stale pids

[Nate Vack]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Jos Backus <jos at catnook.com> wrote:

>  Looks like a separate service is used for each Mongrel. Of course that can be
>  done easily. The solution I'm looking for manages multiple Mongrels under a
>  single service, just like Apache manages its own worker children.

As far as I know, Mongrel doesn't do that -- there's no parent process
managing worker children at all; every mongrel is, in effect, an
independent peer. I'm not sure of the technical reason for this --
perhaps spawning workers is too expensive (or workers are generally
too large) for this to be effective in practice?

I was also a bit confused by this at first, having come from the
Apache world -- but yeah, I've never seen any solution that didn't
involve treating every mongrel as a separate service.

Cheers,
-Nate