Rails performance improvement

rubyonrails-talk
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Andy wrote:

After the url has been inputed in the browser's address,the webrick/mongrel console will hold for about 7-10 seconds before the static files such as javascripts and stylesheets start to be downloaded.

Every time I've seen this happen, and I'm not talking only about RoR, it was caused by a badly configured DNS. Either your machine is probably unable to resolve it's own hostname, or your webserver is configured to resolved client's hostnames, and is unable to do that.

-- Marcus

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Also try running free -m on your linux box. Could be that your mongrel processes got moved out of ram and into swap and now are getting moved back. THis has been discussed a lot on the list about slow "first" requests.

Is it the first request or all of them? If its all of them then this is not your issue, if its the first, then this is probably the problem.

Adam