Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Cormack
On 4 May 2010 09:30, Fouts, Clay wrote: > Thanks for the further info. Sorry for the imprecision, but here I meant > "scale" in the sense of individual Koha installations per web server rather > than hits per installation. My concern is the feasibility of implementing a > scheme like this on a web

Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Fouts, Clay
Thanks for the further info. Sorry for the imprecision, but here I meant "scale" in the sense of individual Koha installations per web server rather than hits per installation. My concern is the feasibility of implementing a scheme like this on a web server which is configured to service requests f

Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Reed Wade
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Thomas Krichel wrote: >  Does the speed increase come more from FastCGI or more from >  using nginx instead of Apache? I generally don't like Apache, >  but using a different web server means finding a box where you >  run just that server or convert all servers t

Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Chris Cormack
Hi all Quick reply as im on the bus. Clay i stress tested with 100 concurrent requests, stepping up in 10s after, apache2 + cgi started swapping hard load got up to 124 before i killed the test. in 252 seconds got 11 200 responses. with nginx which has virtually zero memory footprint + the FCGI::As

Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Fouts, Clay
I'm very interested interested in learning more about this, also. How well does it scale? My experience with FastCGI is that it can lend performance improvements, but it's often at considerable cost in terms of memory. Does the FCGI handle all the scripts or only key performance-sensitive ones, lik

Re: [Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Thomas Krichel
Brendan Gallagher writes > Friday evening here (west coast USA), Saturday evening in New > Zealand. Chris Cormack was showing quite a few of the developers > that hang out in the IRC #koha channel - his testing database of > koha - fed through nginx and FastCGI. I could not get it to run wi

[Koha-devel] Possible IRC tutorial nginx and FastCGI

2010-05-03 Thread Brendan Gallagher
Hi All - Friday evening here (west coast USA), Saturday evening in New Zealand. Chris Cormack was showing quite a few of the developers that hang out in the IRC #koha channel - his testing database of koha - fed through nginx and FastCGI. I was absolutely amazed at the speed that pages from t

Re: [Koha-devel] [Koha] Meetings next week for the community

2010-05-03 Thread Bob Birchall @ Calyx
Thanks Chris. As both meetings are at 5am Sydney time, I’m unlikely to attend. I just want to make a point about the community handover meeting. This is a meeting of the community, not of the HLT committee, although committee members will be present to report. So anyone is entitled to turn up