Mongrel on Windows XP: Slower than Webrick?!?

I just installed mongrel using “gem install mongrel
–include-dependencies”, and it installed. However, the page load times
are now reporting to take almost twice as long, according to the server
logs.

Any idea what could cause that?

Dave:

Never seen that behavior before. They seem almost equal on my systems.
Mongrel might be a slight bit slower, but it’s much more performant.

Are you running in development mode or production mode?

Brian H. wrote:

Are you running in development mode or production mode?

Development mode… I guess that could obscure its advantages a bit,
especially when just looking at the occasional request here or there.
I’m not going to worry about it too much for the moment, I guess.

Yeah, I wouldn’t. But don’t rely on the logs too much for timings…
grab a
mac or a linux box and use httperf to test your sites. It’s more
accurate.
:slight_smile:

I spend a lot of time developing and deploying on Windows, so if you run
into any other problems, let me know; I like to help.