Re: These students are asking for help. Be nice to them.

2001-03-09 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
If this idea catches on, some of us are going to have to change careers. ;-) Galactic Geek wrote: *** Please help a group of students gain practical experience *** We are a group of students with varying degrees of technical expertise. We are studying computer programming in an

Re: number of pgsql childrens on persistant DBI connection

2001-02-20 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Wow! Are you sure no one else is going against your database using persistent connections? How many database handles are you using in your mod_perl apps? Each Apache child process will require one persistent connection to your database for each different database handle. If you have a

Re: General Question

2001-02-12 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
CQ: 944221 On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: Situation: I press the submit button on a form 55 times in 15 seconds. Each request would normally return data to the browser within ten seconds due to the time it takes the database query to execute. Question: What happe

General Question

2001-02-11 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Situation: I press the submit button on a form 55 times in 15 seconds. Each request would normally return data to the browser within ten seconds due to the time it takes the database query to execute. Question: What happens to the 54 earlier processes, since I submitted the request 55 times?

Re: problems installing mod_perl when apache is already installed...

2001-02-01 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Try installing it DSO. The following link will provide some directions. http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html#Installing_separate_Apache_and_m Webmaster wrote: I'm looking forward to start using Apache and mod_perl together...etc. The common E-commerce scenario. I will also be

Re: Perl / DBI Job - Telecommute - Full Time

2001-01-30 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
A post office box in FL? CargoTel, Inc. PO Box 660572 Oviedo, FL 32766 Doesn't sound very professional... "Greg Balfanz, CargoTel" wrote: We have a ground floor opening for a perl programmer for a TELECOMMUTING situation for web/wireless/telecom system development. Thank you, Greg

Re: Perl / DBI Job - Telecommute - Full Time

2001-01-30 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
0 Jan 2001, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: A post office box in FL? CargoTel, Inc. PO Box 660572 Oviedo, FL 32766 Doesn't sound very professional... With $85M I guess he doesn't worry too much about that. 'Course if I had $85M I think I'd go on holiday for a while. 73, Ged. --

Error message -- out of free buffers:

2001-01-27 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I receive the following error message in my Apache error_log after pressing the submit button in "machine-gun like fashion" on one of my forms that requires roughly a minute to process each request using Apache::DBI, mod_perl and PostgreSQL. [Sat Jan 27 15:03:07 2001] null: DBD::Pg::st

Re: Error message -- out of free buffers:

2001-01-27 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Sorry for the post. It appears to be a PostgreSQL configuration issue, and not an Apache/mod_perl issue.

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-17 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I have a wide assortment of queries on a site, some of which take several minutes to execute, while others execute in less than one second. If understand this analogy correctly, I'd be better off with the current incarnation of mod_perl because there would be more cashiers around to serve the

Re: [OT] Availability of Jobs -- was Re: [SOLICITATION] Programmeravailable for contracting..

2001-01-10 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Most year-end bonuses should be paid by the end of this month, while many were already paid out EOY 2000. Since the US stock market is in decline, many people assume their EOY 2001 bonuses will pale in comparison to 2000's. What better time to look for greener pastures. [Not including the

Re: Apache::SizeLimit for unshared RAM ???

2001-01-09 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
IMHO, he has a point. I'd also benefit from memory usage based upon an application threshold. He has a good idea... Rob Bloodgood wrote: I have a machine w/ 512MB of ram. unload the webserver, see that I have, say, 450MB free. So I would like to tell apache that it is allowed to use at

Re: DBI

2001-01-08 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
it was necessary to post it to the list, but I may have been mistaken. It's difficult to provide detailed advice when you don't have all the information, so I did my best. Subject: Re: DBI Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 17:56:53 -0500 From: Buddy Lee Haystack [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscripts that contain un-shared memory

2001-01-06 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Does this mean that mod_perl's memory hunger will curbed in the future using some of the neat tricks in Speedycgi? Perrin Harkins wrote: Sam Horrocks wrote: Don't agree. You're equating the model with the implemntation. Unix processes model concurrency, but when it comes down to it,

Re: Measure of performance !!!

2000-12-22 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Didn't someone already mention that it takes longer to connect to an Oracle database? If you don't use the Apache::DBI module, the Oracle database will be slower because it takes longer to connect to it for each request. By using the Apache::DBI module you effectively negate the time it takes

Re: recommendation for image server with modperl

2000-12-19 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Tell me more... How about memory leaks mod_perl issues? Justin wrote: Hi, I've been catching up on the modperl list archives, and would just like to recommend "mathopd" as an image web server. After having difficulties with the sheer number of front end apache processes necessary to

Re: load average: 24.07, 14.76, 9.20

2000-12-17 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
How much of a performance penalty does using Apache::SizeLimit have? Is there some quantitative way of setting how often to check process size with the "Apache::SizeLimit::CHECK_EVERY_N_REQUESTS = 10;" that results in the best performance? Perrin Harkins wrote: I find Apache::SizeLimit is

Re: memory leak in win32

2000-12-13 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I've had memory leak issues on Linux [so I don't know how appropriate this advise is for Windows], and the fix that worked the best for others myself was to actually kill the apache server restart it. The process takes seconds, and can be automated scheduled for off-hours. If you search the

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection (and a proposal!)

2000-12-06 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I've always considered mod_perl similar to an artist's canvas, while Java is more like a craftsman's tool kit. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Retrieve OID from newly added record

2000-11-08 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Be warned that the OID field for a PostgreSQL record may not always be a unique value. Visit the PostgreSQL Hackers list for more information. Consider creating your own unique value using a combination of time/IP/random number, or using a sequence. Although the condition rarely arises, it

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-08 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
ript. One minute of downtime per server per day isn't exactly noticeable when you have a load balancing system set up. On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: Thanks, but as a RedHat [or other typical major distribution] user, I would never see the documentation you mentioned below.

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
"G.W. Haywood" wrote: Hi there, On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: The morning after "logrotate" runs on my system, the memory usage increases by about 30 megabytes, and continues to do so after each weekly run of the "logrotate" utility.

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
-Uwe Mager wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 05:49:05PM -0500, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: I'm using RedHat Linux v6.1 on an Intel PII SMP box Apache v1.3.14 mod_perl v 1.23 Apache::DBI 0.87 DBI v1.13 DBD Pg v0.93 PostgreSQL v6.5.3 The morning after "logrotate" runs on

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
What happens if you then do a graceful restart? The memory consumption increases by about 1 megabyte for each child process every time I issued the USR1 signal. Which is kind of what I expected given Jens-Uwe Mager's explanation of DSO's failings with mod_perl. I can always rotate my logs

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I may have missed that, but it dosen't mention the "experimental" nature of DSO in the "DSO has the following disadvantages:" section of the documentation located at "http://www.apache.org/docs/dso.html" "G.W. Haywood" wrote: Hi again, On T

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
e Group has been a little less than candid in Apache's true support for DSO. IMHO There really needs to be a warning in the documentation on their website explicitly stating the info you've included below. "G.W. Haywood" wrote: Hi again, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Buddy L

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Thanks! I was under the mistaken impression that I was finally finished with the administration side of things... Oh well... "G.W. Haywood" wrote: Hi there, On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: The memory consumption increases by about 1 megabyte for each child

Re: Memory Usage

2000-11-07 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Thanks Christian! Scripts would be nice.;-) I take it you've used DSO much more than I have, so I'm interested in any information in addition to that provided by the kind "G.W. Haywood" to the following: "What concerns me even more is the fact that I have Apache restart child processes after

Memory Usage

2000-11-06 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I'm using RedHat Linux v6.1 on an Intel PII SMP box Apache v1.3.14 mod_perl v 1.23 Apache::DBI 0.87 DBI v1.13 DBD Pg v0.93 PostgreSQL v6.5.3 The morning after "logrotate" runs on my system, the memory usage increases by about 30 megabytes, and continues to do so after each weekly run of the

Re: Want to work at a Game company?

2000-05-18 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Is this the proper forum for this posting? "Graf, Chris" wrote: INTERNET DEVELOPER If you like the idea of working with unique, talented people and wearing jeans and a t-shirt to work, you're just the person we're looking for. Origin is a long-standing leader in the PC-gaming industry,

Re: Want to work at a Game company?

2000-05-18 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
al Message- From: Jason Bodnar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:00 PM To: Buddy Lee Haystack Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Graf, Chris Subject:Re: Want to work at a Game company? Yes it is. Doug has always encouraged mod_perl related jobs to

Re: [RFC] Benchmarking Apache::Registry and Perl Content Handler

2000-04-14 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Hello! Can you please provide the technical specifications for the hardware that performed these tests. Thanks! Stas Bekman wrote: Disclaimer: the numbers here are too low for mod_perl, because my machine is to slow :( I'll rerun the same tests on a much faster machine before

Re: Mod_Perl install - no apxs error

2000-04-09 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Some cut paste from previous messages... For RedHat DSO specific steps in the mod_perl guide see: http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html#Installing_separate_Apache_and_m No need to recompile Apache. My DSO setup works quite well! **EDIT the "/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf" file

Re: [slightly OT] redhat linux 6.1

2000-04-04 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I haven't built any rpms myself, but I am using Redhat v6.1, Apache v1.3.9-8, perl v5.00503-6, and mod_perl v1.21-2. They were all downloaded from RedHat's FTP site as rpms, and worked fine after installation. I think many people encounter difficulty in correctly modifying the httpd.conf file

Re: how to debug why apachedbi doesn't work?

2000-04-03 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
I have RedHat v6.1 it is working fine, so I'll just send you my http.conf file for you to compare to your own. Adam Gotheridge wrote: env: redhat 6.2, apache, modperl installed from rpm. ApacheDBI-0.87 installed. If I put either PerlModule Apache::DBI PerlModule Apache::AuthDBI in

Re: installing with apache

2000-04-02 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
scripts, otherwise you'll need to point the "Alias /perl/ /home/httpd/cgi-bin/" line "ScriptAlias /perl/ "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/" line to point to another CGI directory of your choice. Hope this helps! R Joseph Wright wrote: On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrot

Re: installing with apache

2000-04-01 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Have you had a chance to look over the excellent documentation located at [http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html]? R Joseph Wright wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Doug MacEachern wrote: After having compiled mod_perl and apache together, shouldn't mod_perl be enabled in httpd.conf?

Re: Installation

2000-03-31 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
Why not try RedHat v6.1? Installing it is a snap! I had it up running in no time. After installing the rpm file for mod_perl, just follow the directions to activate it in the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf then reboot to activate the changes if your a former Windows user.;-) No need to recompile

Re: How to keep Connection: Keep-Alive

2000-03-31 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
If you're referring to a database connection, the Apache DBI module keeps the connection alive, not the mod_perl module. Jaime Teng wrote: Hi, How do you make perl script (either on Linux+Apache+Mod_perl or in NT+IIS4 environment) make a "Connection: Keep-Alive". On both environment,

Re: How to keep Connection: Keep-Alive

2000-03-31 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack
checking what does this mean? it means it handles the whole db in such a way that coding persistence into your perl progs really isnt nessecary as postgres handles it all for youn automagically btw anyone notice how much mysql has been dropping out at freshmeat lately?! Buddy Lee Haystack