Josh Chamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Team,
>>
>> My story with Apache::ASP
>>
>> I had created an application (consisting of serveral dlls written in VB). I had
>naturally been forced to use IIS which lets you call DLLs from ASP.
>>
>> All I had in the ASP file was a Server.CreateObject("Class.clsClass") which
>returned HTML. All the processing and business logic sat within DLLs. I know this
>does not confirm to a true ASP deployment (but I really liked using the VB IDE...:)
>and the debugging advantages there....)
>>
>> I was frustrated with having to use IIS, especially when there is no IIS Out of the
>box with Win XP. So I find Apache::ASP very useful! I can run my server app on XP,
>Win2K, NT ...
>>
>
>This is a great story. I believe developers generally have a harder time
>getting Apache::ASP working on windows type systems, so you might hang
>around to answer windows related questions that pop up!
>
>> I do have a question though. The RAM footprint for Apache has gone up from 3600
>KB(Apache by itself) to 56000 KB now(with mod_perl and Apache::ASP). Why is this? Is
>this normal behaviour?
>>
>
>I believe that with just mod_perl & Apache::ASP, that one should expect the memory
>footprint
>to go to < 20M, but certainly not 56M. It may be that additional libraries being
>loading,
>like via $Server->CreateObject, further bloat memory usage. Can you tell when the
>memory
>goes up to 56M, is this at startup, or after serving a few requests?
>
>> Is there a list of modules that absolutely have to be there for Apache::ASP to
>work? Maybe I have more modules than needed.
>>
>
>If you are installing via perl Makefile.PL type install, it will show you
>the list of dependencies for a minimum install, particularly this from
>Makefile.PL:
>
>
>
>my $necessary_modules = {
># 'Apache' => 'Make sure your installation of mod_perl is complete',
> 'Class::Struct' => "Apache::ASP->Loader() precompile scripts functionality",
> 'MLDBM' => 'This is used for reading and writing multi-level hashes on disk',
> 'MLDBM::Sync 0.25' => 'Support for State dbms like $Session & $Application',
> 'SDBM_File' => 'Internal databases used for state files, like $Session',
> 'Data::Dumper' => 'Serializes data for MLDBM',
> 'Fcntl' => 'Used for file locking constants',
> 'File::Basename' => "Used for tests during 'make test'",
> 'Digest::MD5' => '32 byte hash algorithm for cookie session-id',
> 'Carp' => 'Provides critical error messaging with confess()',
>};
>
>
>
> Apache::ASP will load all of these for you though, so all you
>really need is to say:
>
> PerlModule Apache::ASP
>
>in the httpd.conf. You might want to preload others based on
>what other features you are using like FormFill, XSLT, CompressGzip, etc.
>
>Note that preloading modules under apache 1.3 on windows will do little good,
>but under apache 2 / mod_perl 2 will be of greater benefit.
>
>Regards,
>
>Josh
>
>________________________________________________________________
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>
>
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