[katello-devel] help wanted with mod_passenger

[Mo Morsi]

On 11/09/2012 08:38 AM, Ivan Nečas wrote:
> On 11/09/2012 02:29 PM, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> On 11/09/2012 05:27 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
>>> By the way what are major advantages of mod_passenger over thin. When I
>>> saw Mirek's box, I saw lots of Passenger* processes and the
>>> configuration does not seem to be much easier to understand.
>>>
>>> What they say is mod_passenger is:
>>>
>>> - easier to setup (I don't think so)
>>> - spawns processes when needed (good for providers, but we do not need
>>>    this)
>>>
>> Why not? As I understand thin, it is a single thread. So... if we
>> launch 2 thin servers we get 2 concurrent requests.
> The difference is passenger modifies the number of running processes
> though time, where with this the number is always constant.
>
> Passenger is a de fact standard for deploying Rails apps, there is
> always a benefit of using something that other people use as well.
> However, probably numbers (performance tests) should tell us if to use
> it or not.

Ya, one less moving component as I see it.

Would like to get Aeolus working on passenger, but oh the cycles!

  -Mo