On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:40:00AM -0800, Grant Cooper wrote: > What do yo mean a modem will tie up the Server? I've never heard this > before.
Let's say you have a mod_perl page that returns a 100k document, and a 28.8k modem downloads that document. The mod_perl process that is serving that document will be tied up until that modem finishes downloading the document, which is inefficient since the mod_perl processes take up a lot of memory. A lightweight front-end proxy that loads the data from the mod_perl process all at once and then feeds it to the modem would save memory.
