Re: Modperl/Apache deficiencies... Memory usage.

[Perrin Harkins]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> With mod_proxy you really only need a few mod_perl processes because
> no longer is the mod_perl ("heavy") apache process i/o bound.  It's
> now CPU bound.  (or should be under heavy load)

I think for most of us this is usually not the case, since most web apps
involve using some kind of external data source like a database or search
engine.  They spend most of their time waiting on that resource rather
than using the CPU.

Isn't is common wisdom that parallel processing is better for servers than
sequenential anyway, since it means most people don't have to wait as long
for a response?  The sequential model is great if you're the next in line,
but terrible if there are 50 big requests in front of you and yours is
very small.  Parallelism evens things out.

- Perrin