On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:08:01 +0100 (CET) Jeff Pang <pa...@laposte.net> wrote:
> Thanks for all the kind info and replying. > When you use reverse proxy, do you generally have more than one > modperl backend servers? In my case, I have only one modperl server. > When I put a reverse-proxy in front of it, will it improve the > performance? You can do it any way you like. I have systems that are setup using Perlbal and/or nginx ( which I will call proxy ) in the following situations: 1) proxy on 80 to apache1/mp1 on localhost:8000 2) proxy on 80 and 443 to apache1/mp1 on localhost:8000 and apache2/mp2/perl 5.8 on localhost:8001 3) proxy on 80 and 443 to several different apache2/mp2 servers on a local network. On one system I even have several "instances" of Apache running on localhost on various ports basically one instance per mod_perl "application" due to the traffic patterns/memory usage of the applications. Since one app is a HUGE memory hog and very light on traffic it is setup with just two Apache child processes and the other apps are setup with more children. Hope this helps. ------------------------------------------------------- Frank Wiles, Revolution Systems, LLC. Personal : fr...@wiles.org http://www.wiles.org Work : fr...@revsys.com http://www.revsys.com