# Speed up Rails application and CGI script

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speed-up-rails-application-and-cgi-script/147960>\
**Category:** Deployment\
**Created:** [September 7, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speed-up-rails-application-and-cgi-script/147960 "2008-09-07T17:39:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![konstantin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@konstantin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/konstantin)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 5:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speed-up-rails-application-and-cgi-script/147960/1 "2008-09-07T17:39:56Z")

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Hello!

I was redirected to this group from another.  
Here is my question: what kind of configuration do you have on your  
production server for Rails?  
I need to speed up my application in 10-15 times, and I wonder how to  
make this.

My current configuration:  
FreeBSD 6.2  
Apache 2.2 + the latest Phusion Passenger + the latest Ruby Enterprise  
Ruby 1.8.6  
Rails 2.1.0  
the latest MySQL  
sessions in cookies

I’m researching about memcached now and it seems to be a good way for  
optimization.  
Can you suggest some more methods?

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**Author:** ![konstantin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@konstantin](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/konstantin)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/speed-up-rails-application-and-cgi-script/147960/2 "2008-09-07T22:48:32Z")

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We have been using Litespeed for about a year with great results. Its  
LSAPI implementation of Ruby has been extremely fast and stable when  
running Rails applications.

Where is the bottleneck in your application that must be sped up 10-15  
times?