Upgrading frontend apache - is it worth it?

[Marcin Kasperski]

I use well known configuration 'thin apacheproxy proxying fat mod_perl
apache'. Currently I use apache1 and for now I do not plan upgrading
mod_perl server to apache2. But I think about upgrading the frontend
apache to apache2 - mainly because I hope that multithreaded proxy can
be a bit more efficient and less memory consuming than the
multiprocess proxy.

So the question: is it really worth doing? Has anyone performed
similar upgrade or compared proxying efficiency of apache1 with
apache2? Can the analysis be influenced by using proxy to decode SSL
too?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

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Re: Upgrading frontend apache - is it worth it?

[Ask Bjoern Hansen]

On 19 Sep 2002, Marcin Kasperski wrote:

[upgrade front end proxy to apache 2.x]
 So the question: is it really worth doing?

Because of the ProxyPreserveHost option it is easier to configure
than the 1.x setup.

http://develooper.com/modperl/performance_tuning.html#x59

You can probably get it done without too much work; so then it is
probably worth it.


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