hi,
a question to the group:
am i right in thinking that rails routing occurs outside (before) the
mutex lock on dispatch such that static files get served up on a
different thread than rails script requests. they both go through
routes.rb though.
if that is the case then i shouldn't have to worry about haproxy
sending health checks to my mongrel blocking actual rails requests as
long as the checks are requesting a static file (eg /ror/public/
check.txt). is that accurate? similarly, if i have a long running
request on rails, the mutex should have the one thread locked but
allow requests for non-rails dispacted request (eg static files).
thanks....gg
further investigation leads me to think this is true. i can make my
app sleep for 60 seconds and i don't get
it marked as down or show missed health checks in haproxy. the one
caveat is that if i delete the check.txt
production logs (whereas i don't see
anything in the production logs if check.txt is present). so i assume
then that, on not finding a static file,
mongrel passes it back to rails routing. so my solution is to replace
my empty check.txt with a check.txt
that contains a 404 header. that should keep my checks out of rails
logs and threads.
while this is an imperfect solution as it could be that mongrel is up
but rails is broken, but given the alternative
of having to do very infrequent checking to not interfere with normal
traffic, this seems preferable.
i would, of course, appreciate any feedback or comments.
thanks....gg
