>>>>> "Andreas" == Andreas J Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andreas> I'd also like to hear what people are doing when the apache model has Andreas> scaling problems. We have one problematic project here: we're a Andreas> gateway and must server a high number of very slow customers to a high Andreas> number of very slow feeds. Ideally we would run this in an event loop Andreas> or in coroutines/continuations style, but we have not yet tried that Andreas> out, mainly because so much of our infrastructure relies on everything Andreas> being apache. Is there something in apache2 that would make our lives Andreas> easier? (we have not yet switched to apache2 at all) Are you already using a reverse-proxy? Make sure the front lightweight servers *do* use cache and *don't* use keep-alive to the backend... your heavy backend will spit the entire response, and go free to service the next request... your thin front-end will then deliver that response slowly as needed. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
