Re: highscalability.com report

2012-04-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Talking of youporn: http://gizmodo.com/5899327/how-much-porn-does-the-internet-hold 10 Dual layer DVDs per second.

Re: highscalability.com report

2012-04-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 4 Apr 2012, at 19:41, Fred Moyer wrote: On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:37 AM, demerphq demer...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 April 2012 09:31, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: When was the last time you built perl with no threading support? It's certainly a 5%-15% win. Not

Re: Question about caching

2012-03-13 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 13 Mar 2012, at 21:32, Perrin Harkins wrote: Turn on the template caching. It's basically free and will speed things up. Caching at the page level is the ultimate in terms of speed, but it will only be possible for pages that are not dynamic on a per-user basis. Template caching

Re: Terminating Child process Dynamically

2012-03-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 2 Mar 2012, at 19:04, Shibi Ns wrote: Bouncing means restart the application to bring the current changes and new data to the cache. We can't use the following logic as there are huge number of existing data cache and perl modules involved. So the changes will be massive. Shibi

Re: Funding [WAS :Re: trying to compile mod_perl against httpd-2.4.1]

2012-02-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 29 Feb 2012, at 19:33, Dan Axtell wrote: Basically I want to have various virtual hosts be reverse proxied to various back end servers (e.g. mod_perl for some legacy apps, a Catalyst app under fast CGI). I tried this with Nginx and it all seemed to work but what I discovered is that

Re: mod_perl causing Apache Segmentation fault

2012-02-20 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
So duplicating a path in -I and use lib casues a dump? Smells like a bug to me. On 20 Feb 2012, at 14:25, Mauritz Hansen wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for this pointer. Got it fixed in the end by changing a part of my Apache configuration from PerlSwitches

Re: mod_perl causing Apache Segmentation fault

2012-02-17 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 17 Feb 2012, at 14:03, Mauritz Hansen wrote: #17 0x0046432b in invoke_cmd (cmd=0x5b9880, parms=0x7fffe770, mconfig=0x844728, args=0x89b7d8 use lib qw( /usr/local/apache2/virtualhosts/api.nwwi.nl /httpdocs/lib/ );\n) at config.c:757 This appears to be what it's trying to

Re: disabling directives in .htaccess files

2012-02-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 10 Feb 2012, at 11:46, Aaron Knister wrote: Hi, I'm using mod_perl in a shared hosting environment for some server-side configuration bits. All dynamic content for the users runs through SuEXEC, however this obviously doesn't help in the case of mod_perl so I would like to prevent

Re: disabling directives in .htaccess files

2012-02-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 10 Feb 2012, at 13:50, Aaron Knister wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately the setup isn't fronted by apache proxies. Having an apache instance per site would, I think, be painful-- this is a personal web hosting setup for 80,000+ individual sites (think

Re: mod perl installed but not running

2012-02-07 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 7 Feb 2012, at 16:08, mike cardeiro wrote: From: André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com You should probably analyse your requirements carefully (as to exactly /why/ you want the script to run as that user). I am creating a file transfer site. When a user logs in they can upload a

Re: mod_perl.so: undefined symbol: PL_tainting

2012-01-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Have you compiled perl with libperl.so? On 25 Jan 2012, at 18:41, Jacobs, David (NIH/NCI) [C] wrote: Please help. After banging my head for a while, and trying in vain to find an answer from google, I am in need of some assistance. This is on rhel5, and has the redhat perl 5.8.8 rpm

Re: mod_perl.so: undefined symbol: PL_tainting

2012-01-25 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Engineer, NCI Computer Services Contractor, TerpSys http://www.terpsys.com/ Technology Driven. People Oriented. -Original Message- From: Jacobs, David (NIH/NCI) [C] Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 2:45 PM To: Dave Hodgkinson Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: RE

Re: Registry and mod_include - multiple invocations of a script in an SSI-parsed file

2012-01-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Jan 2012, at 15:29, Mårten Svantesson wrote: Hi Brett, My guess is that you run into a problem of the CGI module not resetting itself between executions of your code. As a test you could try entering the line. CGI::initialize_globals(); explicitly in your script before

Re: Problem when compiling libapreq2-2.13 on Centos

2011-11-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 4 Nov 2011, at 08:50, Pierre QUETELART wrote: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat Install it. yum install libexpat

Re: Building mod_perl for authentication

2011-10-12 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 12 Oct 2011, at 04:06, Fred Moyer wrote: You should be able to run 5.14.1 with 2.06-dev available on http://perl.apache.org. If that doesn't work, I'd suggest posting your handlers to this list. Looking at that symbol error though, it suggests that you may have built mod_perl with a

Re: High CPU utilization on RHEL5.6/CentOS5.6

2011-08-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Wait. Is this the one with the horrible bug that knackers OO? On 25 Jul 2011, at 23:43, Christopher Stanton wrote: Requires: perl = 5.8.8-32

Re: High CPU utilization on RHEL5.6/CentOS5.6

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 26 Jul 2011, at 18:58, Christopher Stanton wrote: I will see if I can get Perl 5.12 and an associated mod_perl up and running on the problem machine and see if the CPU utilization goes down. Is benchmarking out of the question?

Re: Single PerlResponseHander for Web Application

2011-07-19 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 18 Jul 2011, at 23:02, Jerry Pereira wrote: Please let me know of your views. I am not planning to use Catalyst or existing frameworks as of now. Any reason? There are lightweight ones that play well with modern approaches to plugins and multi-server environments.

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-10 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
from requiring system administrators and towards more PaaS'. Tosh On 7/5/11 10:48 AM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 5 Jul 2011, at 08:53, Tosh Cooey wrote: On 7/4/11 11:26 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I'm not happy, hence the complaining about the AMI from 2009. But I'm glad you

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 5 Jul 2011, at 08:53, Tosh Cooey wrote: On 7/4/11 11:26 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: I'm not happy, hence the complaining about the AMI from 2009. But I'm glad you changed the subject from your first one, which is that I should build my own stack. So basically you are saying

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-05 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 5 Jul 2011, at 10:53, André Warnier wrote: Personally, I must say that statements like I just spent six months helping a company do exactly[0] this make me dream. I must be in the wrong triangle... It was an interesting dynamic. Ownership of the Apache stack moved to the developers,

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 4 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Tosh Cooey wrote: The only public AMI for EC2 setup with mod_perl I can easily find is an OpenSuse one from 2009. Services like Bitnami are a really nice platform for launching LAMP stacks, unfortunately the P is anything but Perl :( Is there a reason for the

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 4 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Tosh Cooey wrote: The only public AMI for EC2 setup with mod_perl I can easily find is an OpenSuse one from 2009. Services like Bitnami are a really nice platform for launching LAMP stacks, unfortunately the P is anything but Perl :( Is there a reason for the

Re: mod_perl EC2 AMI's or other platform providers?

2011-07-04 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 4 Jul 2011, at 21:56, Tosh Cooey wrote: On 7/4/11 7:54 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 4 Jul 2011, at 11:03, Tosh Cooey wrote: The only public AMI for EC2 setup with mod_perl I can easily find is an OpenSuse one from 2009. Services like Bitnami are a really nice platform

Re: How do you use mod_perl for your web application?

2011-07-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 2 Jul 2011, at 08:38, Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: (which is why I frequently talk/ask about SizeLimit on this list) And I will frequently say that this is the Wrong Answer. MaxClients and a proxy on the front is more often the right answer. A fat Apache is an application server, treat it

Re: Debugging a long process

2011-06-15 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 15 Jun 2011, at 22:53, Tosh Cooey wrote: I am waiting to hear back from my server admin before I kill him, but it seems that maybe there's some issues with my Ubuntu and the worker MPM on a small EC2 instance. I've been doing this stuff since web 1.0 and have always found prefork to

Re: Debugging a long process

2011-06-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 9 Jun 2011, at 17:13, Tosh Cooey wrote: I haven't tried Devel::NYTProf, but the blocking seems to have been the keyword here... root 2661 0.0 1.5 37900 27492 ?Ss Jun08 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 3875 0.0 1.3 37264 23300 ?S06:25 0:00

Re: Apache2::SizeLimit and x64_86

2011-04-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Apr 2011, at 02:24, E R wrote: Hi all, On x86_64 I noticed that perl .so files (XS modules) appear to use a lot more memory than they do on 32-bit architectures. It's not just .so files. The footprint of our whole mod_perl processes pretty much doubled when we went to 64 bit

Re: http-authentication on postgresql

2011-03-22 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Can you give us a hint as to what the errors are? On 22 Mar 2011, at 15:10, Michel Jansen wrote: Hi There, I have some troubles with the http-authentication using apache2 in combination with postgresql. I used to do it with Apache::AuthenDBI configuring access.conf in the following way:

Re: On memory consumption - request for comments

2011-02-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
What's the rough ETA before this makes it to CPAN? Working out if I want to add the patch to our build process or not... On 24 Feb 2011, at 08:41, Torsten Förtsch wrote: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 09:29:23 Max Kanat-Alexander wrote: On 02/23/2011 11:40 PM, Torsten Förtsch wrote: On

Re: [Mason] ANNOUNCE: Mason 2

2011-02-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
Lovefilm big enough for you? On 24 Feb 2011, at 10:49, xiaolan wrote: oops is there any big player using Mason these days? On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Perrin Harkins per...@elem.com wrote: In case any of you Mason users on the mod_perl list aren't on the Mason list... - Perrin

Re: On memory consumption - request for comments

2011-02-24 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 24 Feb 2011, at 15:44, Fred Moyer wrote: 2011/2/24 Torsten Förtsch torsten.foert...@gmx.net: On Thursday, February 24, 2011 11:27:42 Dave Hodgkinson wrote: What's the rough ETA before this makes it to CPAN? end of April, perhaps. We can release this earlier than 2.0.6

Re: On memory consumption - request for comments

2011-02-11 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 11 Feb 2011, at 14:32, André Warnier wrote: Torsten Förtsch wrote: Hi, there is an ongoing discussion... Great article, Torsten. Thanks. Yes. Please post on the interwebs so I can point colleagues at it. I think A::SL is the wrong hammer for their nail but I need stronger

Re: experiencing Out of memory errors

2011-01-27 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 26 Jan 2011, at 15:17, John Deighan wrote: What we would like is to run this application in a 64 bit environment, thus allowing us to use more than the 2 GB memory that the Apache process ('httpd') is limited to (the Out of memory errors always occur as the memory usage of the httpd

Re: about the message queue server

2010-12-09 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
You're prematurely optimising. Use something and see if it sucks for you. Also, look at RabbitMQ :) On 9 Dec 2010, at 14:39, practicalperl wrote: Hi, Would you please recommend me a high performance message queue server? Currently I'm looking up at:

Re: modperl for ubuntu

2010-12-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 1 Dec 2010, at 02:51, Jeff Pang wrote: Hello, Does modperl and Apache2::Request have a port for Ubuntu and which will be installed by apt-get? Ubuntu's development environment is so worse, has been losing so many libraries, compiling modperl under which is hard. Jeff, It's no so

Re: mod_perl instability on Ubuntu 10.04 server platform

2010-10-28 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 28 Oct 2010, at 12:49, Vanja Hrustic wrote: Unfortunately, it seems like I'd have to dig deep into Apache or mod_perl to hunt this down, and I do not have knowledge (nor 'intuition' :) to do this without some guidance. I have a basic mistrust of shipped packages. I'm in the process of

Re: Share Memory Apache2 and ModPerl2

2010-10-02 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 2 Oct 2010, at 09:10, Idel Fuschini wrote: Hi, For my project Apache Mobile FIlter, I'm looking a method to share memory array data between Apache2 processes. It's possible ? IPC::Shareable IPC::ShareLite And others. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: Poll - do you use Apache::Test custom configuration?

2010-10-01 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
On 30 Sep 2010, at 19:58, Fred Moyer wrote: To simplify the Apache::Test codebase, the custom configuration feature is being considered for removal. Is anyone here using that feature? If you don't know what it is, you aren't using it. I don't believe we do, but could you give us a quick

Build fail on Ubuntu

2010-09-29 Thread Dave Hodgkinson
1. Problem Description: make test fails: t/hooks/authen_basic.t .. 1/4 # Failed test 4 in t/hooks/authen_basic.t at line 26 t/hooks/authen_basic.t .. Failed 1/4 subtests t/hooks/authen_digest.t . ok t/hooks/authz.t .