On Friday 13 June 2003 13:57, Stas Bekman wrote: > > Since your question is too broad to be able to easily pinpoint any problems > without spending some time with it, I'd suggest reading: > http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html > if you haven't done that yet.
I have. Although it was several years ago now. Has much changed? I'll take a look, but I haven't seen anything in there that correlates to the sort of results I'm seeing. This isn't a perl load-time issue, and it's not a small set slow-down - it's a percentage slow-down on pages of which can take up to 10 seconds to generate and return. It's something run-time, which is different between mod_perl and FastCGI. It's bizarre... > Have you heard of Apache::Reload. > http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Reloading_Modules_and_Re >quired_Files I have now. How does it handle syntax errors? Does it kill the whole server, keep the old module running, or just kill that module? > > As a FastCGI, all I have to do to restart it is touch the main CGI file. > > I also have tighter control on the number of FastCGI processes, which is > > more useful for development. > > Looks like you may need to do some docs reading. You can easily get a total > control over the number of mod_perl processes. It's all described here: > http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html Uh, yes, I can limit the Apache processes, but again, that will impact other users on the system. Really, FastCGI does just what I want, and it means I can write a module that works either as a FastCGI or a module. For content modules, that's fine. I've written a myriad of access modules, loggers, trans handlers, etc... For those, yes, they're mod_perl exclusives. But for some purposes, I find FastCGI more efficient. I'd almost be tempted to leave this app as a FastCGI - except for some places we use it we stack with other mod_perl content handlers. And I'm just baffled at this particular performance problem, since I have been through the standard things to check for. -- . Trevor Phillips - http://jurai.murdoch.edu.au/ . : Web Technical Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | IT Services - Murdoch University | >--------------------------------------------------------------------< | On nights such as this, evil deeds are done. And good deeds, of / | course. But mostly evil, on the whole. / \ -- (Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters) /
