On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Let's assume that you have two different sets of scripts/code which
> have a little or nothing in common at all (different modules, no base
> code sharing), the basic mod_perl process before the code have been
> loaded of three Mbytes and each code base adds ten Mbytes when
> loaded. Which makes each process 23Mb in size when all the code gets
> loaded.
Can't you share most of that 23mb between the processes by pre-loading
the scripts/modules in your startup.pl? I'd say the main advantage of
engineering dissimilar services as if they were on separate servers is
scalability rather than memory use. When a site outgrows the hardware
it's on, spreading it out to multiple machines requires a lot less ankle
grabbing if it was designed that way to begin with. :)
- Matt
