# Mongrel problems

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-problems/153845>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-problems/153845 "2008-11-21T19:53:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-problems/153845/1 "2008-11-21T19:53:57Z")

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Hi,  
I am using mongrel on win2k. after i start mongrel only one engine  
handles all the request so the requests are served serially. How can i  
run multiple instances of mongrel so that requests are directed to the  
mongrel instance which is not busy.

Another thing is that sometimes if the request takes long then mongrel  
does not time out the request.(i am using mongrel on windows) . As a  
result the request is stuck on mongrel forever until i have to restart  
it.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/51bf81/32.png) [@ankit2584](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ankit2584)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-problems/153845/2 "2008-11-21T20:10:50Z")

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You need to run a mongrel cluster and use some kind of balancer. I  
develop on Mac and deploy to Linux, so I always go with HAProxy.

I tried googling for balancing software for Windows, but don’t really  
have time to pick through the results, not sure I would care if I did  
find one, because I don’t even own a PC.

Have fun!

–  
James M.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Ank Ag