Per, We run Apache 1.x with mod_perl on Windows 2000. It has been in production for 2.5-3 years. It is rather lightly loaded. It runs a query system that accesses an Oracle database. It may have crashed twice in all that time. Previously, we used IIS and it would go off to lala land at least monthly. So, this is good.
As Rex wrote, it serializes requests which is pretty awful for this day. I think this is a PERL issue rather than a mod_perl or Apache issue, however. I was quite disappointed that these things haven't gotten further by now. I would consider helping out, but C is not my area of expertise. With 1.x, I had problems trying to get SSL built and the binaries I downloaded seamed to hang. I'm trying to get moved to Apache 2.0 to get stable SSL. Since the Apache 1.x we have been using for all this time was considered Beta on Windows, I don't have much to lose. If I don't get this resolved, they will probably make me switch back to IIS. Bottom line is, I like the programming environment, but the support and documentation from the ssl/mod_ssl/openssl and PERL (perl.exe) has been somewhat inadequate. The mod_perl list has kept me going and Doug makes it all possible. Chuck ----- Original Message ----- From: "Per Einar Ellefsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arul, Rex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 1:24 AM Subject: Re: Apache/Mod_Perl in Production Env-- NOT Recommended in Windows? > At 03:48 18.04.2002, Arul, Rex wrote: > >Friends, > > > >I know Apache/Mod_Perl on OS other than Windows to be the trend du juor. > >However, I am in jitters seeing this explicit warning given in > >http://www.perl.com web-portal. > > > >"NOTE: it is not recommended to use Windows for production Apache/mod_perl > >servers; Apache/mod_perl 1.x is not able to scale well on this platform; > >Apache/mod_perl 2.x is addressing the fundamental architectural > >disagreements that cause this." > > > >The article is here:http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html?page=2 > > > >Has anyone in this list use Apache/Mod_Perl in **WINDOWS OS** under > >**Production Environment **? > > Well, the issue on Windows is that the mod_perl server can only serve one > request at a time. So clearly, it's a problem. However, some people have > reported that it would still give them a great performance increase, by > following some special steps. > > Get a proxy setup like described at various places in the guide > http://perl.apache.org/guide/ : the proxy serves most of the requests, and > sends some requests off to the backend mod_perl enabled server. Good > caching should be a plus: the less requests sent to the mod_perl-enabled > server the better. > > This isn't all too different from standard mod_perl setups, but you have to > watch out even more when running on Windows. You might even want to try and > setup several backend mod_perl servers and load balance between them, all > depending on how much memory you can spare. > > > -- > Per Einar Ellefsen > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
