# Mongrel\_proctitle in production environment... good idea?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-proctitle-in-production-environment-good-idea/164532>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 2, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-proctitle-in-production-environment-good-idea/164532 "2009-04-02T10:08:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peter\_Vandenberk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Peter\_Vandenberk](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Peter_Vandenberk)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2009, 10:08am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/mongrel-proctitle-in-production-environment-good-idea/164532/1 "2009-04-02T10:08:03Z")

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Hi all,

[apologies for the crossposting: I originally tried to post this  
message to the mongrel mailing list where it belongs, but it is stuck  
in “moderator approval”]

I am considering using mongrel\_proctitle to get better visibility into  
what each of the mongrels in our mongrel\_cluster is doing:

```
http://alexstaubo.github.com/mongrel_proctitle/

```

So far, I’ve tested it in a development and an integration  
environment, and it’s working like a charm, and is indeed extremely  
useful.

But, before I roll it out to our (Linux-based) production environment,  
I thought it’d be a good idea to see if anyone has any experience with  
it (good or bad), especially considering that mongrel\_proctitle does  
what it does so well by synchronizing on a mutex, which I guess could  
be somewhat of an issue with Rails?!?

Many thanks in advance,

Peter

PS - some version info…

pvdb@localhost ~ $ mongrel\_rails --version  
Mongrel Web Server 1.1.5

pvdb@localhost ~ $ gem list rails

\*\*\* LOCAL GEMS \*\*\*

rails (2.2.2)