Ben-Nes Michael wrote:
> My Q. was if the mod_so will reduce speed or security ?
Of course it reduces speed (maybe except for some special platforms
where PIC compilation is used always, like Compaq Tru64 UNIX), but
you must ignore it. I'll explain:
The CPU is not an issue, at least in 97%-98% of the sites (unless
your overhead is hundreds of percents). In the WWW, there are so
huge bottlecks, like the Internet connection, the other bottlenecks
in the way to the end-user's browser, the context switch delay when
running CGI-BINs, the parsing (of scripts like Perl and PHP), the
need to load and parse htaccess files (sometimes even per request),
reverse resolution of IP addresses (when it is not disabled), the
TCP/IP stacking problems (Linux is "best" in it...), etc.
In your specific case, there is another point which is much worse
than all of these issues: SSL.
Contrary to these considerations, the overhead of shared objects is
small, and affects only the CPU. Of course the module will spend
less CPU when it is linked statically than dynamically, but the
price of having it statically is too high: maintainance becomes
painful.
The benefit of having a modular and flexible Apache worth any CPU
second.
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Eli Marmor
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