# Mongral cluster issue

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 14, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559 "2008-05-14T06:51:58Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ripan)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559/1 "2008-05-14T06:51:58Z")

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We have mongrel cluster, somehow all the requests are routed to first  
mongrel instance only. can anybody please tell me …why none  
of the requests are being redirected to other instances.

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**Author:** ![ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ripan)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559/2 "2008-05-14T10:18:00Z")

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On May 14, 5:51 am, ripan [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> We have mongrel cluster, somehow all the requests are routed to first  
> mongrel instance only. can anybody please tell me …why none  
> of the requests are being redirected to other instances.  
> You probably haven’t configured the proxy (apache, nginx etc…) that  
> sits in front of your mongrels properly.

Fred

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**Author:** ![ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ripan)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 11:17am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559/3 "2008-05-14T11:17:35Z")

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how we can check that load balancing is done properly

On May 14, 1:17 pm, Frederick C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@ripan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ripan)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2008, 12:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongral-cluster-issue/137559/4 "2008-05-14T12:36:27Z")

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On 14 May 2008, at 10:17, ripan wrote:

> how we can check that load balancing is done properly

Look at apache’s (or nginx’s, whatever you’ve got etc…)  
configuration and see if it looks right.

Fred