Skylos wrote:
Also, to compare, I work with an apache 1.3 site that has alot of cgi
perl script on it. With the idea that shifting to mod_perl registry
mode would cause this site to go faster, I modified the configuration.
And watched the system load average rapidly climb into the
multiple-hundreds! Its a tilt of the hat to BSD that it didn't crash
right there. But I was able to kill apache (-9 -9 -9!!) and restore
the cgi scripts to normal mod_cgi handling. What happened? Memory
usage. Each copy of the apache had those big cgi scripts loaded in. And this very busy server had ALOT of processes running
simultaneously.
Did you preload the those scripts at server start-up? This would change it so that instead of each apache child having it's own copy of each script they would have been placed in shared (copy-on-write) memory.
-- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
