Does/can Passenger use clusters like Mongrel?
I'm just curious if Passenger does or can utilize clusters like Mongrel can. If so, how can I specifically run Passenger with clusters? I'm using nginx. And if not, how does it outperform Mongrel so well? Mongrel Cluster just runs a specified number of Mongrel processes and assigns incoming HTTP requests to them using Apache's mod_proxy_balancer module which acts as a reverse proxy and performs load balancing. Passenger spawns worker (Ruby) processes to handle HTTP requests using one of three different and configurable strategies . When Passenger's smart spawning method is used it is able to