Application extremely slow

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I am running a sample application using InstantRails (1.3a) in Windows XP local machine. I set the mode to production, and started SCGI server. Every time it takes almost 4 minutes to open my application's home page, and subsequent pages also take minutes to load. Something must be wrong.

In public/.htaccess, there is one line:          RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] Since I am using SCGI server, I am not sure if the above line is OK. InstantRails 1.3a contains Apache 1.3.

Does anyone out there have any idea why it's so slow and how to fix it?

Thanks a lot!

wdz

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SCGI *IS* horribly slow, period.

Either use FastCGI, or even better, mongrel.

http://mongrel.rubyforge.org

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It's not that slow... something else is going on.

But SCGI is deprecated and you really should use Mongrel instead. I recommend switching to Instant Rails 1.4 which replaced SCGI with Mongrel.

Curt

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I am convinced to use Mongrel. Thank both of you for the information!

wdz

Curt Hibbs wrote:

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I'm building a personal image hosting site to learn rails. I'm using the SCGI dispatcher and it seems about the same as FastCGI. I'm running it on a pretty old XP machine with InstantRail and a slow/shared DSL internet connection. Takes about 10 seconds for the initial page and 5 seconds for other pages. I did have a problem once which made it go very slow. I would check my running processes and there would be like 7 ruby.exe's running. I redid the config and it fixed it. I'll have to check mongrel out.

If you want to see my sites speed check here: http://photoalbum.dyndns.org/photos/list