Zed Shaw wrote:
> Yes, it handles concurrent requests *except* for right when it runs the
> actual Rails dispatcher.  Rails isn't thread safe and so there needs to be a
> big sync lock around the whole thing to keep Rails from peeing in it's pants
> like a schoolgirl.

Ah, that incontinence problem again.

So does that imply that one might actually want to run several instances 
of Mongrel behind a load-balancing lighttpd proxy? Since most of the 
time (for my app at least) is going to be spent within Rails, 
effectively Mongrel's single-threaded.