At 03:48 18.04.2002, Arul, Rex wrote: >Friends, > >I know Apache/Mod_Perl on OS other than Windows to be the trend du juor. >However, I am in jitters seeing this explicit warning given in >http://www.perl.com web-portal. > >"NOTE: it is not recommended to use Windows for production Apache/mod_perl >servers; Apache/mod_perl 1.x is not able to scale well on this platform; >Apache/mod_perl 2.x is addressing the fundamental architectural >disagreements that cause this." > >The article is here:http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/12/axkit.html?page=2 > >Has anyone in this list use Apache/Mod_Perl in **WINDOWS OS** under >**Production Environment **?
Well, the issue on Windows is that the mod_perl server can only serve one request at a time. So clearly, it's a problem. However, some people have reported that it would still give them a great performance increase, by following some special steps. Get a proxy setup like described at various places in the guide http://perl.apache.org/guide/ : the proxy serves most of the requests, and sends some requests off to the backend mod_perl enabled server. Good caching should be a plus: the less requests sent to the mod_perl-enabled server the better. This isn't all too different from standard mod_perl setups, but you have to watch out even more when running on Windows. You might even want to try and setup several backend mod_perl servers and load balance between them, all depending on how much memory you can spare. -- Per Einar Ellefsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
