Re: Apache::Session - What goes in session?
Not in the MS house that I am living in right now :^( On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Perrin Harkins wrote: Ian Struble wrote: And just to throw one more wrench into the works. You could load up only the most popular data at startup and let the rest of the data get loaded on a cache miss. That is one technique that we have used for some customer session servers. It allowed each server to start up in well under a minute instead of in 15-30 minutes while pegging the DB. The 15-30 minutes was when we were dealing with ~5mil total entries and I would hate to see it now that the size of the table has doubled. Now we just need to do some batch processing to determine what subset gets loaded at startup. You could also just dump the whole thing into a Berkeley DB file every now and then. - Perrin
Re: [OT] eToys Jingle (was: Where was that success story?)
And further still into OT land, Israel is a pretty popular Hawaiian artist. Too bad he does not get play on the mainland. Ian On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tom Servo wrote: What I really want to know is: what ever happened to that eToys jingle that was on the commercials? It was almost as good as the site. My children were all under 7 when the site folded, so those commercials and that jingle REALLY pulled the heart strings. Heh, used to work there. Song was: Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole on the album Facing Future Enjoy. Brian Nilsen
Re: Win32 Proxy question
You can still get alot out of a proxy if you have a win32 box doing heavyweight mod_perl stuff. The only thing is that you need to have it on a different machine because mod_proxy doesn't hack it on a win32 machine. I'm sure that you could do it with something other that apache+mod_proxy if you wanted to keep it all on one machine. Actually, I might have been having problems with mod_proxy because of problems in the tcp stack in SP4 that are now fixed in SP6. So you might want to play around a little bit and see if it works. Question for the list -- are we still limited to a single interpretter thread with mod_perl on win32? Ian On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, siberian wrote: I know I get a lot when I use a lightweight proxy in front of my modperl servers under UNIX but how about under Win32? Since it uses a different model does a reverse proxy really give you that warm and fuzzy feeling or does it just become another layer between the system and the user? I am fairly ignorant of the way Win32 does its threading etc so I ask. Thanks for any input John Armstrong
Re: Win32 Proxy question
How hard are you pounding it in the 'lab'? I don't remember how hard I had to pound to break my win32 proxy(NT4,SP4 and Apache 1.3.9 or 11) but it wasn't all that hard. You should be able to pound pretty hard with an LWP based pounder. Ian On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, siberian wrote: Under Win 2k Advanced Server using mod perl and mod proxy we get ok results in 'laboratory settings'. How that will translate in the real world is anyones guess, most likely poorly. Thanks John- On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Ian Struble wrote: You can still get alot out of a proxy if you have a win32 box doing heavyweight mod_perl stuff. The only thing is that you need to have it on a different machine because mod_proxy doesn't hack it on a win32 machine. I'm sure that you could do it with something other that apache+mod_proxy if you wanted to keep it all on one machine. Actually, I might have been having problems with mod_proxy because of problems in the tcp stack in SP4 that are now fixed in SP6. So you might want to play around a little bit and see if it works. Question for the list -- are we still limited to a single interpretter thread with mod_perl on win32? Ian On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, siberian wrote: I know I get a lot when I use a lightweight proxy in front of my modperl servers under UNIX but how about under Win32? Since it uses a different model does a reverse proxy really give you that warm and fuzzy feeling or does it just become another layer between the system and the user? I am fairly ignorant of the way Win32 does its threading etc so I ask. Thanks for any input John Armstrong
Re: [OT] New element for CGI.pm (or StickyForms, etc.) (revised)
I think that both the date_field and the time_field idea are good ones
but how are you going to localize them? The different formats for date
and time might be a bit of a hassle. But you might be able to have
date_field return an array of 3 fields as is done with the check box
constructor. So you could use it like this and then arrange the date
components however you want it:
my ($year, $month, $day) = date_field(-name ="end_date",
-value="2000-12-31")
# I'm a farmer and I care most about the month...
print "$month $day $yearbr\n";
Ian
On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Kenneth Lee wrote:
Better still,
print date_field(
-name ="expiry",
-value="2000-12-25");
so that if value is omitted, the current value will be used.
But date format will be a great concern.
And how about time_field() also?
Sorry for the annoyance.
Original Message
Subject: [OT] New element for CGI.pm (or StickyForms, etc.)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:45:21 +0800
From: Kenneth Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
anyone thought of a 'date_field' element for CGI.pm (or StickyForms, etc.)?
this is my thought,
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print date_field(
-name ="expiry",
-year =2000,
-month=12,
-day =25);
$expiry_date = param('expiry');
which is an elegant way to do
use CGI qw/:standard/;
print textfield(-name='expiry_year', -value=2000);
print popup_menu(-name='expiry_month', -values=[1..12], -default=12);
print popup_menu(-name='expiry_day', -values=[1..31], -default=25);
$expiry_date = sprintf "%d-%d-%d", param('expiry_year'),
param('expiry_month'), param('expiry_day');
and the date validation can be done in query string parsing too.
Thanks for any input.
Kenneth
Re: Apache children hanging
Now if only I had known this two years ago... Awsome tidbit though. Thanks! you can find out which line of Perl code is triggering a spin, by attaching to the process with gdb; % gdb httpd $pid_of_spinning_process % source modperl_x.xx/.gdbinit % curinfo should show you the filename:line_number where Perl is stuck.
Re: Apache children hanging
Someone just pointed out that this should probably go into the guide or FAQ somewhere. Just a thought... On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: % gdb httpd $pid_of_spinning_process % source modperl_x.xx/.gdbinit % curinfo oops, that should be: % gdb httpd $pid_of_spinning_process (gdb) source modperl_x.xx/.gdbinit (gdb) curinfo
Re: Microsoft SQL 7.0 interface
When you compile FreeTDS you will be better off using tds version 4.2 unless you specifically need something in 7.0. Here is the configure option you need for this: --with-tdsver=VERSION Ian On Mon, 29 May 2000, Kee Hinckley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N At 5:45 PM -0500 5/26/00, Wang, Pin-Chieh wrote: Any body knows how to access Microsoft SQL/on NT from Apache on Linux ? Our data base is running on NT/SQL , but web server is running Apache/Linux DBD::Sybase and FreeTDS will work (http://www.freetds.org/). - -- Kee Hinckley - Somewhere Consulting Group - Cyberspace Architects(rm) I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.2 for non-commercial use http://www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBOTH5aiZsPfdw+r2CEQKZ/ACdHfmeg1fmSfLlj5CiapCHXWF5vy8AoP7s nVY5U4aLCjUjbnib0uNRYSJ3 =73+t -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Drew Taylor wrote:
I have a site which uses cookies for user tracking. If you go to
http://cloudstock.com/, the server is sending the cookie but the browser
is not accepting it ("warn before accepting cookie" is on). If I go to
http://www.cloudstock.com/ the cookie is sent accepted.
Does your Set-Cookie header include a path setting? Some browsers require
that.
If you don't have the 'path' set it may be defaulting to the directory of
you request. So either way(blank or /some/dir) you could have problems
if you're not setting path=/.
-Ian
OT: mod_proxy socket error
Hi all, I have been getting the following error when I try to do some stress testing on a machine: [error] [client 10.1.1.1] (55)No buffer space available: proxy: error creating socket Basically the box is just the front end proxy to a backend process that is running on another machine. It is running FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE. I tweaked kern.ipc.maxsockbuf. But since I am trying to fetch requests from a remote host increasing this setting did not help. I am guessing that I am going to have to tweak some of the net.inet values to increase the buffers for the nic but I just can not seem to see the forest through the trees right now. If anyone has already run into this or a similar problem in the past I would love to get the answser on a silver platter :^) Thanks and sorry for the slightly off topic post. Ian
Re: W32 + Apache::DBI ?
Now all I have to do is rebuild perl with USE_THREADS. I had someone else play with getting mod_perl setup under NT and i don't think that they did it quite right. It seems like I only have one interpreter thread that is being shared by all the different apache child threads. Does this sound like something that could happen if your perl binary didn't have threads stuff compilled in? mod_perl under Win32 always just uses one interpreter, all perl requests are serialized. This has nothing to do with USE_THREADS. Nobody had made a threaded mod_perl so far and the thread support in perl 5.005 itself is experimetal (for example it has problems in regex's) *sigh* Well at least I know now. Thanks. Ian
RE: W32 + Apache::DBI ?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Gerald Richter wrote: I have been digging around in the FAQ and archives for information about people running mod_perl on a windows box and also using Apache::DBI, but have come up with nothing. I am under the impression that it is not going to work becase whenever I try to load up the Apache::DBI module apache starts up and then exists immediately leaving this in the error log: [Mon Oct 25 15:06:11 1999] file .\main\http_main.c, line 5890, assertion "start_mutex" failed Build mod_perl with PERL_STARTUP_DONE_CHECK set (e.g. insert #define PERL_STARTUP_DONE_CHECK 1 at the top of mod_perl.h or add it to the defines in MSVC++ Options dialog). Thanks Gerald, this worked like a charm! And thanks to everyone else for the input on this one. It really helped ALOT! Now all I have to do is rebuild perl with USE_THREADS. I had someone else play with getting mod_perl setup under NT and i don't think that they did it quite right. It seems like I only have one interpreter thread that is being shared by all the different apache child threads. Does this sound like something that could happen if your perl binary didn't have threads stuff compilled in? Ian
Re: W32 + Apache::DBI ?
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Tim Bunce wrote: Can't locate object method "trace_msg" via package "DBI" at C:\Perl\site\5.00503\lib/DBI.pm line 311. END failed--cleanup aborted. That's a known bug that was fixed in DBI 1.10 (I believe). Just FYI, I had the problem in DBI 1.13. It was the #define PERL_STARTUP_DONE_CHECK=1 that fixed my original problem with the start_mutex. Ian
W32 + Apache::DBI ?
Hi mod_perlers,
I have been digging around in the FAQ and archives for information about
people running mod_perl on a windows box and also using Apache::DBI, but
have come up with nothing. I am under the impression that it is not
going to work becase whenever I try to load up the Apache::DBI module
apache starts up and then exists immediately leaving this in the error log:
[Mon Oct 25 15:06:11 1999] file .\main\http_main.c, line 5890, assertion
"start_mutex" failed
Here is the section where that assertion is. I have no idea what the 'Z'
option is. First time I have ever heard of it actually.
#ifdef WIN32
case 'Z':
exit_event = open_event(optarg);
APD2("child: opened process event %s", optarg);
cp = strchr(optarg, '_');
ap_assert(cp);
*cp = 0;
setup_signal_names(optarg);
start_mutex = ap_open_mutex(signal_name_prefix);
ap_assert(start_mutex);
child = 1;
break;
Does this mean that Apache::DBI is not thread safe and not going to be
available to me in a Win32 environment? And another followup question
for someone who is as unlucky as me and doing stuff under NT, is there
only one interpreter thread available to all the 'child' threads? It
just seems like that based on the way that requests seem to queue up when
a database request takes a little while to return.
Thanks for yur help,
Ian
