# Re: Pound and Long running actions

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-pound-and-long-running-actions/116437>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [October 5, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-pound-and-long-running-actions/116437 "2007-10-05T15:27:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/a9adbd/32.png) [@piet](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/piet)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 3:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/re-pound-and-long-running-actions/116437/1 "2007-10-05T15:27:18Z")

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You can’t do this with pound.  
Try haproxy (or probably several others) instead. Haproxy does this and  
much more and is much lighter on resources compared to pound.

Or check out swiftiply, which in my tests could handle more or less the  
same load as haproxy, but at full load each requests was handled in \<  
200ms, while with haproxy it became \> 2sec. But I remember it still  
having some issues when I tested it, not sure what the current status  
is.

Piet.