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By: Millarian » Blog Archive » Monitoring Thin using God, with Google Apps Notifications

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:30:35 +0000

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By: Michael Glauche

Michael Glauche — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:19:15 +0000

The socket connection to nginx sounds interesting, i’m particular supprised at the big difference they make. I always did belive that most modern unix do tcp and unix sockets at similar speed ..

By: jkrepko

jkrepko — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:30:58 +0000

The key, I think, to the config file is that it works via Unix sockets rather than ports; so if your web server is configured for Unix sockets everything works fine. I use nginx, and I have an nginx.conf file of the form:

upstream backend {
server unix:/tmp/thin.0.sock;
server unix:/tmp/thin.1.sock;
server unix:/tmp/thin.2.sock;
}

which works like a charm. For more on the use of Unix sockets with thin, see http://macournoyer.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/get-intimate-with-your-load-balancer-tonight/.