It's not worth the effort probably, even if you could.  Usually the bottle neck 
becomes the DB anyway.

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On Mar 19, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Ben H <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to work out how to respond to increasing/decreasing
> traffic to my Heroku site with dynos management from within the app
> itself.
> 
> I know you can access HTTP_X_HEROKU_QUEUE_DEPTH or
> HTTP_X_HEROKU_QUEUE_WAIT_TIME and use those to set the amount of
> dynos. What I'm wondering is what process to use to do the checking.
> 
> Is it okay to add an after_filter to every action in the app to do a
> check against some threshold, and if a threshold has been met, change
> the number of dynos? I would only have 5/6 thresholds, so for vast
> majority of users the only impact would be the increased time it takes
> to do the check, and then for a handful of users it would be the check
> + the changing of dynos time.
> 
> Would it be too much of an inconvenience to the users? Is there a
> better way?
> 
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