Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscriptsthat contain un-shared memory

[Jeremy Howard]

Joe Schaefer wrote:
> "Jeremy Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't know if Speedy fixes this, but one problem with mod_perl v1 is
that
> > if, for instance, a large POST request is being uploaded, this takes a
whole
> > perl interpreter while the transaction is occurring. This is at least
one
> > place where a Perl interpreter should not be needed.
> >
> > Of course, this could be overcome if an HTTP Accelerator is used that
takes
> > the whole request before passing it to a local httpd, but I don't know
of
> > any proxies that work this way (AFAIK they all pass the packets as they
> > arrive).
>
> I posted a patch to modproxy a few months ago that specifically
> addresses this issue.  It has a ProxyPostMax directive that changes
> it's behavior to a store-and-forward proxy for POST data (it also enabled
> keepalives on the browser-side connection if they were enabled on the
> frontend server.)
>
FYI, this patch is at:

  http://www.mail-archive.com/modperl@apache.org/msg11072.html