I'm using CGIHTTPServer (via its test() method) to test some CGI on my Windoze 98 box. I find that the execution is very slow. Is there anything I can do to make sure I'm getting the best performance out of CGIHTTPServer?
Compared to what, and on what hardware?
CGI is not a rip-roaring performance demon on any platform, but
CGIHTTPServer is designed to be convenient more than fast. It isn't going
to do as well as a native server.
The key question you need ask is this: is it fast enough? If you're doing
a web page for internal use that is only going to get a hundred hits a day,
who cares if each page takes 5 seconds to render? If you're doing 10,000
hits a day, you need to choose something other than Windows 98.
Fair enough. Pretend my question said "compared to apache, but also to CGIHTTPServer on linux". The Windows box has modest specs Celeron 2.8GHz, 256MB, but it takes 30-60s render pages. I was using it to test my cgi locally, ie. no network, one user
Windows bashing is fun :-) but unfortunately I don't think that is the issue here. The answer I was looking for was something like - "yes, change config file so-and-so in such-and-such a way" or simply "no."
If there is no way to improve performance, could anyone tell my _why_ it's running so slowly? Presumably spawning a process takes some time. The code I'm running as CGI is not hectic at all.
Thanks in advance, Johan
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