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From: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
To: unicorn list <mongrel-unicorn@rubyforge.org>
Cc: Paul Dlug <paul.dlug@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Setting app name for process list
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 14:42:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100708214209.GA7500@dcvr.yhbt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C36418F.4010209@whitepages.com>

Devin Ben-Hur <dbenhur@whitepages.com> wrote:
> On 7/8/10 1:55 PM, Paul Dlug wrote:
>> Is there a way to set an application name for unicorn processes?
>> Basically an arbitrary name which would then show up in the process
>> list to identify unicorn processes, like what thin does with --tag.
>
> A patch to do something like that was recently rejected. Instead the  
> documentation was updated with Eric's recommendated solution to instance  
> identification:
> http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/mongrel-unicorn/2010-July/000620.html
>
> +    Using an absolute path for for CONFIG_FILE is recommended as it
> +    makes multiple instances of Unicorn easily distinguishable when
> +    viewing ps(1) output.

Lawrence Pit also recommends running each app as a separate user,
which is also a great idea (IMHO, though some ops people I know
dislike this):

   http://mid.gmane.org/4C32926D.5080400@gmail.com

-- 
Eric Wong
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-08 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-08 20:55 Setting app name for process list Paul Dlug
2010-07-08 21:22 ` Devin Ben-Hur
2010-07-08 21:42   ` Eric Wong [this message]
2010-07-09  5:09     ` Paul Dlug
2010-07-09  5:44       ` Jeremy Evans

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