Re: Running a proxy in front of mod_perl on Win32
Am Fr, 28.01.2011, 09:31, schrieb Michiel Beijen: > On Fri, January 28, 2011 01:14, Michael Peters wrote: >> Another thing that maybe the OP should look at (if he hasn't already) is >> to run a proxy in front of the main mod_perl application. Even if the >> proxy is on the same machine it will help because you can reduce the >> number of memory-heavy mod_perl processes/threads and handle the same >> number of connections. > > I have read that advice before; then it was because of this bug concerning > running mod_ssl + mod_perl at the same time on Win32: > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36751 > > Unfortunately the bug still exists but the bug report was set to invalid > because it did not get proper attention. > > What would be the best (windows-style) way of running a proxy in front of > apache? > > Insights are welcome! > -- > Mike > > (Linux-style) I use nginx and it works great (by coping with ssl and keep-alives) whether you allow it to cache requests or not. It can serve thousands of simultaneous connections and still has just a memory footprint of a few mb. I dont know if the event-model works as great under windows but there are windows builds available on the website (http://nginx.org) so it should be worth a try. Hendrik
Re: Running a proxy in front of mod_perl on Win32
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Michiel Beijen wrote: > On Fri, January 28, 2011 01:14, Michael Peters wrote: >> Another thing that maybe the OP should look at (if he hasn't already) is >> to run a proxy in front of the main mod_perl application. Even if the >> proxy is on the same machine it will help because you can reduce the >> number of memory-heavy mod_perl processes/threads and handle the same >> number of connections. > > I have read that advice before; then it was because of this bug concerning > running mod_ssl + mod_perl at the same time on Win32: > https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36751 Even if that problem is fixed, the advice to use a proxy server is good. > What would be the best (windows-style) way of running a proxy in front of > apache? There are many proxy servers available. If you search the list archives for "proxy" you should find many posts discussing the pros and cons of various ones. - Perrin
