Okay, so it's slow because it does a lot of work. How does it do this
search? Is it a bunch of SQL queries, or a request to a remote server of
some other kind, or an internal calculation? Is there some possible
caching you can do?
Lots of SQL queries and calculation based on the query results. I've cached
most of the query results, but the calculation results can't be cached
because they depend on user inputs.
I would probably use some sort of queue system here. I would have the
mod_perl process push requests onto a queue (probably in a database) and
then have a separate daemon, maybe on a different machine, do the work and
return the answer. It would allow you to split the search into multiple
pieces that happen in parallel, and handle them on multiple machines
simultaneously. It would also separate the web request, which is fast,
from the slow search request. That lets your server scale to handling many
more clients at once, even though some of them are just waiting for their
turn.
Good idea!!! Thanks... You've been a great help...
POE sounds good to start with, right?
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