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author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2018-12-16 11:38:59 +0000 |
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committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2018-12-19 02:47:00 +0000 |
commit | d0ce6b9b9d055b62997b4fe6caee8799e3c19cc5 (patch) | |
tree | 1dff51343f091b2ffe3afebdd86cd26543d6edbd /README | |
parent | ed3a3187b6aaca458b2abadcdb7d0f48f9c5dfb5 (diff) | |
download | unicorn-d0ce6b9b9d055b62997b4fe6caee8799e3c19cc5.tar.gz |
Nowadays, I mainly rely on systemd (and not USR2) for zero-downtime upgrades. Also, CoW-friendliness is standard in mainline Ruby since 2.0. There also needs to be a disclaimer to point out the unfortunate side-effect of robustness for hosting buggy apps.
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@@ -37,12 +37,15 @@ both the the request and response in between unicorn and slow clients. You can upgrade unicorn, your entire application, libraries and even your Ruby interpreter without dropping clients. +* transparent upgrades using systemd socket activation is + supported since unicorn 5.0 + * before_fork and after_fork hooks in case your application has special needs when dealing with forked processes. These should not be needed when the "preload_app" directive is false (the default). -* Can be used with copy-on-write-friendly memory management +* Can be used with copy-on-write-friendly GC in Ruby 2.0+ to save memory (by setting "preload_app" to true). * Able to listen on multiple interfaces including UNIX sockets, @@ -55,7 +58,7 @@ both the the request and response in between unicorn and slow clients. == License -unicorn is copyright 2009-2016 by all contributors (see logs in git). +unicorn is copyright 2009-2018 by all contributors (see logs in git). It is based on Mongrel 1.1.5. Mongrel is copyright 2007 Zed A. Shaw and contributors. @@ -122,6 +125,10 @@ unicorn is designed to only serve fast clients either on the local host or a fast LAN. See the PHILOSOPHY and DESIGN documents for more details regarding this. +Due to its ability to tolerate crashes and isolate clients, unicorn +is unfortunately known to prolong the existence of bugs in applications +and libraries which run on top of it. + == Contact All feedback (bug reports, user/development dicussion, patches, pull |