That's puzzling, because with mod_python, you're only invoking
the compiler once per Apache restart. With CGI programs, you pay
the loading penalty on every request.
John Nagle
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> Recently I've had to move my site to a new dedicated server running
> FreeBSD 6.1. After installing apache 2.0.59, python 2.4.4 and
> mod_python 3.3.1, I decided to bench a script in PHP vs one in Python.
> I found out that for some reason, my mod_python was performing
> extremely slow - magnitudes slower than it should. I scowered the
> internet for hours and asked a few friends and still haven't been able
> to find a solution to the problem.
>
> from mod_python import apache
>
> def handler(req):
> for i in xrange(1000):
> print >> req, "Yeah"
> return apache.OK
>
> and...
>
> <?
> for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++)
> echo "Yeah\n" ;
> ?>
>
> when I ran ab on both using 1000 requests and a concurrency of 10, i
> got these results:
>
> python- Requests per second: 21.37 [#/sec] (mean)
> php- Requests per second: 1008.37 [#/sec] (mean)
>
> Any ideas would really be appreciated... I'm on my last leg.
>
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