Carl Johnstone wrote:
Hi,
Anybody got any experiences of mod_perl on RHEL5?
The rpms in RHN suggest versions of:
mod-perl 2.0.2
apache 2.2.3
perl 5.8.8
which are reasonable enough (and it's not the pre-release mp2 problem
that RHEL4 had!)
However in the past there have been plenty of posts suggesting that
Redhat's official rpms had relatively poor performance etc - is that
still the case for RHEL5?
I've run mod_perl on Centos5 which is basically the same thing. I build
perl, mod_perl, and apache from source though. Red Hat ships perl with
threads enabled, and while that may work in most situations, there is
about a double digit performance hit in addition to running into
potential stability issues.
If this app is user facing, I recommend building all three from source
for maximum speed and stability. If it isn't a mission critical app,
the stock rpms may work fine for you.
