# Need some help with mongrel and performance problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 23, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569 "2007-06-23T13:56:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jochen_kaechelin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 1:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569/1 "2007-06-23T13:56:50Z")
I run a Debian/Etch witch Apache 2.2.3 and self installed Rails 1.2.3. apache2 configuration: \ BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8100](http://192.168.178.200:8100) BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8101](http://192.168.178.200:8101) BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8102](http://192.168.178.200:8102) BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8103](http://192.168.178.200:8103) BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8104](http://192.168.178.200:8104) BalancerMember [http://192.168.178.200:8105](http://192.168.178.200:8105) \ ServerName [www.gissmoh.de](http://www.gissmoh.de) ServerAdmin removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ``` ProxyPass /images ! ProxyPass /stylesheets ! ProxyPass /javascripts ! ProxyPass / balancer://beta/ ProxyPassReverse / balancer://beta/ SetEnv force-proxy-request-1.0 1 SetEnv proxy-nokeepalive 1 # RewriteEngine On # DirectoryIndex index.html ... ``` bash: mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8100 -e production mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8101 -e production mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8102 -e production mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8103 -e production mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8104 -e production mongrel\_rails start -d -p 8105 -e production The website [www.gissmoh.de](http://www.gissmoh.de) is very, very slow ☹ The host is connected via a [dyndns.org](http://dyndns.org) account and uses a Broadband ADSL connection (512Kbit upstream, 6Mbit downstream). One year ago I run a PHP application on the same machine and it was a lot faster. Didn’t I get mongrel and apache2 configured right?? Thanx – Jochen K. [gissmoh.de](http://gissmoh.de), [figgfrosch.de](http://figgfrosch.de), [ror-ror.de](http://ror-ror.de) ---
**Author:** ![jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jochen_kaechelin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569/2 "2007-06-23T14:07:51Z")
jochen kaechelin schrieb: > ``` > BalancerMember http://192.168.178.200:8105 > ProxyPass / balancer://beta/ > > ``` > > bash: Here are some entries from the producion log: Processing BookController#index (for xxxxxx at 2007-06-23 14:04:47) [GET] Session ID: 5b50e646aafef8c631b694b3883a1280 Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“book”} Rendering within layouts/application Rendering book/index Completed in 0.00887 (112 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00860 (96%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://www.gissmoh.de/book](http://www.gissmoh.de/book)] Processing FlickrController#index (xxxxxx at 2007-06-23 14:05:07) [GET] Session ID: 5b50e646aafef8c631b694b3883a1280 Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“flickr”} Rendering within layouts/application Rendering flickr/index Completed in 0.00863 (115 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00834 (96%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://www.gissmoh.de/flickr](http://www.gissmoh.de/flickr)] Processing StartController#index (for xxxxxx at 2007-06-23 14:05:14) [GET] Session ID: 5b50e646aafef8c631b694b3883a1280 Parameters: {“action”=\>“index”, “controller”=\>“start”} Rendering within layouts/application Rendering start/index Completed in 0.00976 (102 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00957 (98%) | DB: 0.00000 (0%) | 200 OK [[http://www.gissmoh.de/](http://www.gissmoh.de/)] – Jochen K. [gissmoh.de](http://gissmoh.de), [figgfrosch.de](http://figgfrosch.de), [ror-ror.de](http://ror-ror.de) ---
**Author:** ![jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jochen_kaechelin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569/3 "2007-06-23T22:47:49Z")
About 100 reqs/sec is very good performance result. For 24h it would be 8640000 request. Not bad… ---
**Author:** ![jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jochen_kaechelin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569/4 "2007-06-23T14:10:51Z")
jochen kaechelin wrote: > ``` > BalancerMember http://192.168.178.200:8105 > ProxyPass / balancer://beta/ > > ``` > > bash: > > The host is connected via a [dyndns.org](http://dyndns.org) account and uses a Broadband > ADSL connection (512Kbit upstream, 6Mbit downstream). > > One year ago I run a PHP application on the same machine and it was > a lot faster. > > Didn’t I get mongrel and apache2 configured right?? A quick firebug analysis shows that most of the time is used fetching CSS and JS files. One way of resolving this is by using multiple asset hosts, a starting point for this could be: [http://www.chadfowler.com/2007/2/18/edge-rails-goody-distributed-asset-hosts](http://www.chadfowler.com/2007/2/18/edge-rails-goody-distributed-asset-hosts) – Cheers, - Jacob A. ---
**Author:** ![jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jochen\_kaechelin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jochen_kaechelin)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/need-some-help-with-mongrel-and-performance-problems/107569/5 "2007-06-23T23:15:51Z")
bigzel schrieb: > About 100 reqs/sec is very good performance result. For 24h it would > be 8640000 request. Not bad… It’s a 250 Euro machine: model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz stepping : 9 bogomips : 5605.32 Tasks: 104 total, 2 running, 102 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.7%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 1028216k total, 1003548k used, 24668k free, 102856k PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND amavis 18 0 102m 81m 1080 S 0.0 8.1 1:52.33 clamd amavis 15 0 54348 44m 2504 S 0.0 4.5 0:00.38 amavisd-new amavis 15 0 53904 44m 2704 S 0.0 4.5 0:01.42 amavisd-new snort 15 0 46880 44m 3216 S 0.0 4.4 0:03.84 snort amavis 18 0 51752 43m 2428 S 0.0 4.3 0:03.99 amavisd-new root 15 0 41968 28m 2476 S 0.0 2.9 0:01.80 mongrel\_rails root 15 0 41828 28m 2468 S 0.0 2.8 0:01.78 mongrel\_rails root 15 0 41696 28m 2464 S 0.0 2.8 0:01.75 mongrel\_rails root 15 0 41700 28m 2472 S 0.0 2.8 0:01.75 mongrel\_rails root 15 0 41668 28m 2464 S 0.0 2.8 0:01.75 mongrel\_rails root 15 0 41564 28m 2464 S 0.0 2.8 0:01.74 mongrel\_rails mysql 15 0 125m 18m 5644 S 0.0 1.8 0:04.36 mysqld www-data 15 0 24020 9092 4936 S 0.0 0.9 0:01.98 apache2 www-data 15 0 23936 8776 4664 S 0.0 0.9 0:01.33 apache2 www-data 15 0 23948 8732 4656 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.74 apache2 root 18 0 23756 8628 5012 S 0.0 0.8 0:00.60 apache2 www-data 15 0 23804 8608 4640 S 0.0 0.8 0:01.48 apache2 postgrey 18 0 12220 8128 2644 S 0.0 0.8 0:19.51 postgrey www-data 15 0 23760 7092 3264 S 0.0 0.7 0:00.07 apache2 www-data 15 0 23756 5472 1632 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.01 apache2 www-data 18 0 23756 5296 1524 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.01 apache2 www-data 15 0 23756 5296 1524 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 apache2 www-data 15 0 23756 5176 1404 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.01 apache2 www-data 18 0 23756 4868 1252 S 0.0 0.5 0:00.00 apache2 But I think it’s too slow to run the rails app here… I think I must look for a dedicated machine… – Jochen K. [gissmoh.de](http://gissmoh.de), [figgfrosch.de](http://figgfrosch.de), [ror-ror.de](http://ror-ror.de)