UPDATE: http://yeti-factory.org/2008/2/28/sleeping-mongrel-handlers May be of interest to people who want to further research the effect of a bulk of sleeping mongrel handlers on their server. In testing, the Rails app showed to still be responsive while the threads were sleeping (granted, the trivial code). More anecdotal production use notes are still required, tho. Also: in the testing, the server showed itself to eventually reach an error condition with "too many open files" caused by t...

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