On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Phlip <phlip2005 / gmail.com> wrote: > > hemant wrote: > >> Ignore this part, all these changes are available in master and svn >> repository as well. > > What can BackgrounDRb do that Spawn can't do? > > One is out-of-process and the other in-process. > > Would a server like Mongrel hang up on a Spawn? I do not think it will hang up on moderate load, but can create problems when you are offloading lots of tasks to a thread running inside mongrel. Also, there is no way to check, what happened to the task. Thats from a very brief glance at Spawn.