# Slow-down with Capistrano?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [April 17, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983 "2006-04-17T17:17:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Josh_on_Rails)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983/1 "2006-04-17T17:17:31Z")

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This could be entirely my imagination, but it _feels_ like my apps are  
ever  
so slightly less responsive after deploying with Capistrano.

Is that even possible?

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**Author:** ![Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Josh_on_Rails)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983/2 "2006-04-17T22:09:29Z")

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On Apr 17, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Josh on Rails wrote:

> This could be entirely my imagination, but it _feels_ like my apps  
> are ever so slightly less responsive after deploying with Capistrano.
> 
> Is that even possible?

I hesitate to ever say ANYTHING is impossible, but I will say it is  
extremely unlikely. Capistrano does not muck with your app’s runtime  
environment.

If you have a custom deployment recipe, it may be that your recipe is  
doing something that is resulting in the slow-down, but if your app  
is slow, it is almost certainly due to something other than Capistrano.

- Jamis

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**Author:** ![Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Josh_on_Rails)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 1:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983/3 "2006-04-18T01:44:46Z")

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On Apr 17, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Jamis B. wrote:

> If you have a custom deployment recipe, it may be that your recipe  
> is doing something that is resulting in the slow-down, but if your  
> app is slow, it is almost certainly due to something other than  
> Capistrano.

It _does_ add an extra level of indirection in file  
access via the ‘current’ symlink in the standard  
configuration, but I have to agree that it’s _highly_  
unlikely anyone would notice that at the other end  
of the pipe. 🙂

–  
– Tom M.

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**Author:** ![Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Josh\_on\_Rails](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Josh_on_Rails)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/slow-down-with-capistrano/93983/4 "2006-04-19T15:45:14Z")

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In the event that this happens to anyone else…

In the old way (“ftp these files to the server”) I kept  
server/environment-specific files out of Subversion. In Capistrano,  
these  
files stay in Subversion.

Long story short, make sure you set things up for Production /  
dispatch.fcgi.  
Development / dispatch.Cgi is _slow_.