[web-devel] [Yesod] Re: Better web app deployment

[Michael Snoyman]

On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Douglas Livingstone <rampant at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 May 2012, at 11:00, web-devel-request at haskell.org wrote:
>
> I was actually very specific about what we should do: send an
> interrupt signal. In your case, you could catch that signal and allow
> your long-running processes to finish. Likewise, an app which is has
> any kind of long-running responses would want to take that approach.
>
>
> All apps will need a variation on this, since even if the individual
> responses are fast, they will need to be completed before the process can
> exit. I'm not sure how this affects restarting Nginx, how does it handle
> pending responses when asked to restart with a new config?
>
> Douglas
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I just tested this, and it works as we'd hope. Existing connections
continue just fine, and new connections get routed to the new app
process.

Michael