Having objectively looked at both I would say a simple DBI perl app running under mod_perl with Apache::DBI installed would be your best bet for performance. Connection pooling is something you'll need to keep the overall load down.
PHP's pconnect is good but seems to be a bit broken in it's pooling practices. Anyone else have any suggestions? Craig Westerman wrote: > > I'm needing counter for site that receives 80 to 120 hits a minute at peak > load. Many I > have tried cause excessive server load and need to be deactivated or they > lose data and return to zero without warning. All tried so far have been > written in Perl writing to a file. > > Anyone here know of a counter that would handle HIGH traffic with little > added server load? Would using MySQL to store count be of any benifit? > > Would Perl or PHP be faster for writing count to MySQL? > > Thanks > > Craig ><> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php -- Colin Faber (303) 859-1491 fpsn.net, Inc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
