From e6e110a33f7f6d162cf4213c497354dc44a4bceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trent Ogren Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:56:44 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Deploy doc: clarification of the GIL --- DEPLOYMENT.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/DEPLOYMENT.md b/DEPLOYMENT.md index 6ecbb776..deda10ca 100644 --- a/DEPLOYMENT.md +++ b/DEPLOYMENT.md @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Here are some rules of thumb: **How do you know if you're got enough (or too many workers)?** -A good question. Due to MRI's GIL, only one thread can be executing at a time. +A good question. Due to MRI's GIL, only one thread can be executing Ruby code at a time. But since so many apps are waiting on IO from DBs, etc., they can utilize threads to make better use of the process.