I have an AIX 5.2 (16 GB RAM), Apache 2.2.8, MySQL 5.0.51a and mod_per 2.04 environment. I had a Perl cgi-bin program using CGI.pm that I converted to work in mod_perl. The converted script still uses CGI.pm and is now enabled in Apache via:
PerlModule ModPerl::Registry Alias /perl/ /usr/local/apache2/perl/ <Location /perl/> SetHandler perl-script PerlResponseHandler ModPerl::Registry PerlOptions +ParseHeaders Options +ExecCGI Order allow,deny Allow from all </Location> I have my startup.pl containing: use Apache::DBI; use DBI(); Called in httpd.conf with: PerlPostConfigRequire /usr/local/apache2/scripts/startup.pl Apache was compiled with --with-mpm=prefork All webpages are accessed using SSL. I am investigating offloading SSL, but that will take a few months to accomplish. If only a few users are using the application then performance is fine. By this I mean the display of a MySQL query to a webpage takes a few seconds. Once we get over 20 users performance degrades to about 45 seconds. Any tips would be appreciated.