Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Jeff Yoak wrote: All, I wasn't sure what volume of response to expect when I originally wrote. Thank you all for the comments that you all are making. They are helping. Given that the response is fairly high, I'm waiting for stuff to roll in rather than

Re: modperl vs. C

2001-12-15 Thread Stas Bekman
[Crossposting modperl list, since Jeff Yoak sent his question to both lists, and I'd rather answer once :)] Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Yoak) writes: [C vs mod_perl for web applications] with something I've done, and a client's investor who is blowing a gasket

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-15 Thread Stas Bekman
While this advocacy thread is hot, please remember my request to send me your success stories so we have more material others can use to prove their point to their investors, bosses, girlfriends, moms :) I've received only three new stories since my request (I didn't put them online yet, they

Success story.

2001-12-15 Thread Steven Lembark
The URL is on an internal LAN for a company whose name I cannot use. The site gets up to a few hundred hits per second supporting a telephone call center database. My company was asked to develop a web front end onto a TB data warehouse. The existing system (carefully crafted in C) was so slow

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-15 Thread Marc Spitzer
I know this sounds kind of simple minded but why not bench test the site, set everything up in the office get a good switch plug the site into 1 port and 5-10 client boxes with some load testing software and plug it in to the same switch and beat the crap out of it. After you do this for a while

Re: load balancing on apache by IP CHAINING

2001-12-15 Thread Medi Montaseri
I'm confused'IP chainging' as the name says is at the IP (or Network) layer, what does that have to do with Apache or any HTTP server at the application level. I think any such IP based load balancing technologies are inherently unaware of the total system issues and are simply making a

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-15 Thread Jeremy Howard
Rob Mueller (fastmail) wrote: And ++ on Paul's comments about Devel::DProf and other profilers. Ditto again. I've been using Apache::DProf recently and it's been great at tracking down exactly where time is spent in my program. One place that Rob and I still haven't found a good solution

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-15 Thread Perrin Harkins
One place that Rob and I still haven't found a good solution for profiling is trying to work out whether we should be focussing on optimising our mod_perl code, or our IMAP config, or our MySQL DB, or our SMTP setup, or our daemons' code, or... Assuming that the mod_perl app is the front-end

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-15 Thread Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 09:58:09AM +1100, Jeremy Howard wrote: Can anyone suggest a way (under Linux 2.4, if it's OS dependent) to get a log of CPU (and also IO preferably) usage by process name over some period of time? What about BSD Process Accounting (supported in most *nix systems) and

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-15 Thread Paul Lindner
On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 08:57:30PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: One place that Rob and I still haven't found a good solution for profiling is trying to work out whether we should be focussing on optimising our mod_perl code, or our IMAP config, or our MySQL DB, or our SMTP setup, or our

cvs commit: modperl-2.0/pod modperl_dev.pod

2001-12-15 Thread dougm
dougm 01/12/15 15:45:05 Modified:lib/ModPerl BuildOptions.pm pod modperl_dev.pod Log: make MP_GENERATE_XS=1 the default Revision ChangesPath 1.13 +1 -0 modperl-2.0/lib/ModPerl/BuildOptions.pm Index: BuildOptions.pm

cvs commit: modperl-2.0/xs/tables/current/ModPerl FunctionTable.pm

2001-12-15 Thread dougm
dougm 01/12/15 15:51:43 Modified:xs/tables/current/Apache ConstantsTable.pm FunctionTable.pm StructureTable.pm xs/tables/current/ModPerl FunctionTable.pm Log: sync Revision ChangesPath 1.19 +2 -2

cvs commit: modperl-2.0/xs/maps apr_functions.map

2001-12-15 Thread dougm
dougm 01/12/15 15:51:13 Modified:xs/maps apr_functions.map Log: adjust to apr_pool_create() change Revision ChangesPath 1.26 +1 -1 modperl-2.0/xs/maps/apr_functions.map Index: apr_functions.map