Thanks for the quick reply! On 5 November 2010 15:18, Jeff Trawick <traw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:36 AM, YorHel <yor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> .. >> >> I have not been able to find a similar feature built-in into Apache, >> and while looking for solutions I came across mod_buffer in Apache >> 2.3. Which, if I understood its working right, does not buffer input >> *before* the request is passed to the handler, but while the handler >> is already "handling" the request. Running an alpha release on a >> production server does not seem like a good idea, either. > > For input, mod_fcgid already does what you want (in fact it doesn't > implement any alternative).
Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I did test mod_cgi and found out that the httpd wasn't buffering the input in that case. I had assumed mod_fcgid to work similar in that regard, but I guess I was wrong. I'll do a similar test with mod_fcgid tomorrow. > For output, have you looked at the FcgidOutputBufferSize directive? I'm surprised haven't noticed that option before. Looks like I was too focused on plain CGI in my research. (for which it's not even all that crucial to buffer I/O *sigh*) The documentation suggests it will do what I want. I'll play around with that as well tomorrow and report my results. > I looked at mod_buffer and similar logic in mod_fcgid some time ago > with the thought that mod_buffer could be used, but IIRC fcgid has > flushing unexpectedly integrated with buffering. It would be good for > someone to separate that into separately configurable processing and > hopefully allow mod_buffer to be used to the extent possible. > >> I also found mod_security, which is a sophisticated-looking external >> module that seems to be able to buffer request data, but doesn't seem >> to buffer output. >> >> This makes me wonder: is my situation that rare, or am I simply >> looking in the wrong direction? What is the usual Apache way to handle >> situations like this? > > not rare; somebody sitting next to me at the moment complains of some > humongous Drupal (PHP) processes, 8 of which will take over a 48GB > system Ouch. I will consider myself lucky, then. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
