mongrel

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Whether you're using nginx + mongrel, apache + mongrel or apache + passenger, your web server buffers the entire request before rails locks itself for processing.

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  1. noun An animal or a plant resulting from various interbreedings, especially a dog of mixed or undetermined breed.
  2. noun A cross between different breeds, groups, or varieties, especially a mixture that is or appears to be incongruous.
  3. adjective Of mixed origin or character.

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  1. Middle English, probably from mong, mixture, from Old English gemang; see mag- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also mungrel, mongril, mongrill, moungrel; from late Middle English mengrell for *mengerel, *mongerel, from mang, mong, a mixture (see mong), + -erel, a double diminutive (-er, -el), as in cockerel, pickerel, etc.
  2. Formerly also mungrel, moungrel; from mongrel, n.
 

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/ˈməŋgrɛl/
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