"Perrin Harkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I spoke to the technical lead at Yahoo who said mod_perl will not scale as > > well as c++ when you get to their level of traffic, but for a large > > ecommerce site mod_perl is fine. > > According to something I once read by David Filo, Yahoo also had to tweak > the FreeBSD code because they had trouble scaling *TCP/IP*! I would say > their experience is not typical.
Increasing the number of file handles, I'd wager. That was an issue on 2.x linux kernels too. -- David Hodgkinson, Wizard for Hire http://www.davehodgkinson.com Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Deep Purple Family Tree news http://www.slashrock.com Interim Technical Director, Web Architecture Consultant for hire
