Ged Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > > >>>Significant improvements have been made in >>>the reliability of mod_perl as DSO and nowadays there is much less >>>discussion about it on this list. >> >>Are you sure it's not because 'most everyone has silently given up on it? > > > Yes, I'm sure. Red Hat comes with Apache prebuilt for DSO I believe. > I have worked on contracts for a number of organizations which use DSO > mod_perl in high volume environments (hundreds of thousands of users). > Then I take your word for it. (My question was sincere, not argumentative, by the way).
> >>>There are still one or two dusty >>>corners but in general thesedays I'd say try it. >> >>I had not expected Debian stable to be one of the dusty corners. > > > What I meant was that some (perhaps slightly unusual in some way) > configurations seem to give more problems than others. For example > I think that servers using SSL have perhaps been prone to troubles, > but it could just as easily be that the people who experienced the > problems were not careful to follow what you might say are slightly > more complex than usual build procedures. > Hmmm. In my case, I replicated the problem with Debian's plain vanilla Apache as well, for the very purpose of simplification. So SSL does not seem to be involved.
