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Archive > September 2007
A better approach to restarting a Mongrel cluster
At Karabunga, we use Mongrel, a lot. As our Rails applications become larger, the startup time of a Mongrel process becomes significant.
As you know, restarting your a Mongrel cluster is a matter of issuing this command: /etc/init.d/mongrel_cluster restart. Here’s what happens for a cluster of 4 Mongrels:
For one of our application, the “stop” time [...]
