Running a proxy in front of mod_perl on Win32

2011-01-28 Thread 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



Re: Running a proxy in front of mod_perl on Win32

2011-01-28 Thread Hendrik Schumacher
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