Is there any documention of a HOWTO or a tutorial about a lightweight
front-end proxy that loads the data from the mod_perl


----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Mak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Grant Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: Apache 2?


> 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.

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