# Is fastthread required for Mongrel or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [April 24, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840 "2007-04-24T22:15:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2007, 10:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/1 "2007-04-24T22:15:18Z")
All, I just saw this Zed S. post from a few months back: > **[OSDIR](https://osdir.com)** > > edit post Gaming How To Check If US iGaming Platform is Safe July 13, 2021 edit post Gaming What made which seems to imply that I should be using fastthread or I may encounter memory leakage in Mongrel. Currently, I don’t have fastthread installed on any platform. Any more complete info./advice on this? Thanks, Wes ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 3:04am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/2 "2007-04-25T03:04:23Z")
Are you saying you don’t have fastthread cuz you didn’t install it or did you check “gem list” and it’s not there. The gem is installed on my dev machine and at least one server but I never specifically installed it… so something pulled it in. b ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/3 "2007-04-25T07:15:05Z")
Ben M. wrote: > Are you saying you don’t have fastthread cuz you didn’t install it or > did you check “gem list” and it’s not there. The gem is installed on my > dev machine and at least one server but I never specifically installed > it… so something pulled it in. > > b I do a gem list and it’s not there on my dev (windows) box (could be that the mongrel distributed with RadRails doesn’t include?). W ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/4 "2007-04-25T16:53:59Z")
I have 1.0.1 - the win32 version. Maybe fastthread doesn’t come with that? ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2007, 7:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/5 "2007-04-25T07:32:37Z")
On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:15 PM, Wes G. wrote: > I do a gem list and it’s not there on my dev (windows) box (could be > that the mongrel distributed with RadRails doesn’t include?). > > W Sounds like you have an old verison of mongrel. You should be using 1.0.1. What version of mongrel do you have installed? You could just gem update mongrel and you will get the latest + fastthread. Cheers- – Ezra Z. – Lead Rails Evangelist – removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 1:34am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/6 "2007-04-26T01:34:41Z")
On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:53 AM, Wes G. wrote: > I have 1.0.1 - the win32 version. Maybe fastthread doesn’t come with > that? Hmm I don’t know, I haven’t used windows in a few years. But when I do a gem install of fastthread there is a pre built win32 port. So I suggest you install it: ez slices $ sudo gem install fastthread Need to update 13 gems from [http://gems.rubyforge.org](http://gems.rubyforge.org) … complete Select which gem to install for your platform (i686-darwin8.8.1) 1. fastthread 1.0 (ruby) 2. fastthread 1.0 (mswin32) 3. fastthread 0.6.4.1 (ruby) 4. fastthread 0.6.4.1 (mswin32) 5. Skip this gem 6. Cancel installation Cheers- – Ezra Z. – Lead Rails Evangelist – removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/7 "2007-04-26T06:05:56Z")
On Apr 25, 2007, at 8:42 PM, Wes G. wrote: > Mongrel should just pick up fastthread if it is present correct? > > Thanks Ezra, > Wes Wes- Yup it will just use it if it is there. Cheers- – Ezra Z. – Lead Rails Evangelist – removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid – Engine Y., Serious Rails Hosting – (866) 518-YARD (9273) ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/is-fastthread-required-for-mongrel-or-not/92840/8 "2007-04-26T05:42:20Z")
Mongrel should just pick up fastthread if it is present correct? Thanks Ezra, Wes