> What's --all?  I am on 1.3.1, and "--all" isn't in the help text.  I have
> only had success with stopping with a specific config file and -C
> <config_file>, and that way, it works well.  Every other way I tried of
> stopping thin has resulted in the thin stopping immediately, but the
> command not returning immediately, or the thin not stopping.

> On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Tim Spence <yogi.wan.ken...@gmail.com>wrote:

> > Hello,

> > We have around 100 instances of our rails app running across six
> > machines, using a customized nginx as a load balancer.  Each machine
> > uses Thin 1.2.11 to host the app.  Thin works beautifully.

> > When we push new code, we start and stop thin with an /etc/init.d
> > script that in turn stops thin by executing "/path/to/thin stop --all
> > $CONFIG_PATH".

> > The trouble is that when we stop Thin, it takes up to 30 seconds
> > (config timeout limit) to stop the process.  This happens consistently
> > across machines.  Our average request completion time in Rails is
> > 150ms, with 90% of requests finishing in < 400ms, so I doubt that we
> > are unfortunate enough to be handling a long-running request on each
> > machine every time we stop Thin.  Consider that we push code with the
> > website down--nginx stops sending requests to our app servers several
> > seconds before we issue the stop command to Thin.

> > I know the machines are not overloaded, as we have plenty of RAM, swap
> > is minimal, and CPU load maxes out at ~ 0.5 per core.

> > I inherited this setup, so I don't know if we're even using Thin in
> > the best way.  Should we be using Thin Cluster instead?  Should that
> > even make a difference?  Are there configuration options--besides
> > lowering timeout and possibly killing requests--to shorten this time?

> > Here's our config:
> > ---
> > chdir: /var/www/rails/app_name/current
> > environment: production
> > address: 0.0.0.0
> > port: 9000
> > timeout: 30
> > log: log/thin.log
> > pid: tmp/pids/thin.pid
> > max_conns: 2048
> > max_persistent_conns: 1024
> > require: []

> > wait: 30
> > servers: 16
> > daemonize: true

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