Dirk Koopman wrote: > I hate to say this but, frankly, this is not (imho) a pure perl > application. I have spent quite a bit of time fiddling around with perl > as webserver type thing and done some benchmarks.
Me too! I coded a few Perl implementations of the servers from Comer & Stevens [0]. The experience was extremely frustrating as performance stank and under high load zombies always became a problem, whatever reaping code I used. I guess reaping is just fragile under high load. There doesn't seem a sensible reason to code a web server in Perl. It's going to be slower than apache and is likely to break under pressure. --nwetters [0] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/013260969X/
