On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Chris Brooks wrote:
> We have a fairly simple handler responsible for maintaining
> state on our web server. Unfortunately, when we activate
> it, server performance drops to about 1/10th of what it is
> without. After going through the handler and commenting
> out parts and benchmarking (rinse, repeat), Apache::Session
> appears to be the culprit.
>
> I can't believe that the use of this module should have so
> great an effect. We have to be doing something
> incorrectly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
You are using Apache::DBI, right?
Going to the database on every single request is going to be
expensive. If the rest of your application doesn't normally hit the
database it makes sense for this to have a significant impact.
- Perrin
