PerlTransHandler question

[shawn]

Hi, I have been having a few problems with dial-up users downloading large pictures from my mod_perl enabled webserver, also I see spikes in cpu usage which also suggests to me that the server is doing a lot of work serving up the large images. What I would like to do is set up an image cluster, to allow mod_perl to basically only execute code within the page, release and let another server worry about serving up images. What I have done so far is altered my PerlTransHandler with the code below               if($host ne 'dev.webserver.com' && $host ne 'images.webserver.com'){                         if($new_uri =~ m/\.(jpg|gif|css|pdf|bmp|js|eps)$/i){                                     #now redirect the image                                     $r->header_out(Location=>"http://images.webserver.com$new_uri");                                     return REDIRECT;                         }             }     So far this working on my development environment, but what I am really wondering about is if this will actually take the load off mod_perl? (it’s a little hard for me to tell without significant traffic) Will the mod_perl server execute the page and release the connection and not care how long the images server is taking? If anyone has a better solution or an idea I would love to hear it.   Thanks Shawn