# Mongrel on Windows XP: Slower than Webrick?!?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889 "2007-07-19T23:26:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dnstevenson)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889/1 "2007-07-19T23:26:13Z")

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I just installed mongrel using “gem install mongrel  
–include-dependencies”, and it installed. However, the page load times  
are now reporting to take almost twice as long, according to the server  
logs.

Any idea what could cause that?

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**Author:** ![dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dnstevenson)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2007, 11:43pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889/2 "2007-07-19T23:43:08Z")

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Dave:

Never seen that behavior before. They seem almost equal on my systems.  
Mongrel might be a slight bit slower, but it’s much more performant.

Are you running in development mode or production mode?

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**Author:** ![dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dnstevenson)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889/3 "2007-07-20T00:00:11Z")

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Brian H. wrote:

> Are you running in development mode or production mode?

Development mode… I guess that could obscure its advantages a bit,  
especially when just looking at the occasional request here or there.  
I’m not going to worry about it too much for the moment, I guess.

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**Author:** ![dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@dnstevenson](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dnstevenson)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-on-windows-xp-slower-than-webrick/109889/4 "2007-07-20T04:29:34Z")

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Yeah, I wouldn’t. But don’t rely on the logs too much for timings…  
grab a  
mac or a linux box and use httperf to test your sites. It’s more  
accurate.  
🙂

I spend a lot of time developing and deploying on Windows, so if you run  
into any other problems, let me know; I like to help.