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The Merb dispatcher is responsible for dispatching incoming requests from a work queue it maintains. Merb is thread-safe, meaning it’s capable of better performance through multithreading, but if the libraries you use make thread safety an issue, the dispatcher is capable of locking requests using mutual exclusion. You can do this in your configuration file as follows:
Merb::Config[:use_mutex]