http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/17/etoys.html
Yea, mod_perl really sucks ; ) I have even worked on poorly architectured and coded sites which still performed fairly well. > Recently I did a substantial project for a client in using > mod_perl. That client is happy with the work, but an investor with their > company is very angry because of what a horrible choice mod_perl is for > high-load web applications compared with Apache modules and even CGI > programs, written in C. If anyone on this list could forward any > resources > that do comparisons along these lines, or even analysis of mod_perl's > handling of high-load web traffic, I would be very grateful.
