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written December 8 2006 by

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Install Mongrel on Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper

Already two weeks ago, version 0.3.18 of Mongrel was released.
Read about the important integration of fastthread and how to install it.

Here’s a quote from the mongrel-users mailing list:

fastthread is a library which replaces the synchronization primitives
defined in stdlib’s thread.rb (Mutex, ConditionVariable, Queue, and
SizedQueue) with optimized versions which are much faster (in the non-contention case, speed comparable to direct use of Thread.critical or Thread.exclusive) and don’t leak memory (the stdlib implementation of Mutex manages to trigger worst-case behavior of a memory leak in Array)

To install and use the new Mongrel version run install fastthread and mongrel from the official mongrel site:

$ gem install fastthread —source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases
$ gem install mongrel —source=http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/releases

Note that fastthread is optional. So if you haven’t installed it, Mongrel will also work.