Does each ip request to a ruby on rails application on a server spawn a new ruby process?

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When I view the output of the top command on ubuntu, I notice sometimes
there is 6 ruby processes. When are each of these processes spawned?

I cannot imagine that it’s every time someone loads the rails
application
from a different ip address, otherwise I would assume there would be
more
ruby processes spawned.

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On Jul 10, 2013, at 9:35 AM, John M. [email protected] wrote:

When I view the output of the top command on ubuntu, I notice sometimes there is
6 ruby processes. When are each of these processes spawned?

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I cannot imagine that it’s every time someone loads the rails application from a
different ip address, otherwise I would assume there would be more ruby processes
spawned.

In whatever is managing your Rails app, there’s probably a setting for
number of workers. These can be dynamic, or not, depending. Multiple
workers running your Rails app is pretty standard, actually, to respond
to multiple requests. This is something you see all the time with
apache, nginx, lighty, fastcgi and other things as well.