On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 01:18:14AM +0100, Matt King wrote: > Hello, > > >I'm looking to develop some custom AGI that will be MySQL intensive. It > >appears Asterisk supports many different development environments. Which > >would be best suited for Asterisk and MySQL? > > It's generally fastest to use FastAGI (over TCP/IP), rather than > regular AGI as this means the OS isn't starting a new process for each > call (just like it's faster to use PHP or Servlets rather than > old-school CGI for serving web pages).
FastAGI is like FastCGI. PHP can run as CGI/AGI and FastCGI/FastAGI. But it is commonly run (with Apache) as a module an internal PHP "interpeter" that run in the apache process(es). The equivalent for that on Asterisk is res_LANGNAME . E.g: res_php and res_perl. They run a complete LANGNAME interpeter inside Asterisk. One downside for that: there is some code in the works (written. checked in?) to reduce priority of a spawned process. But "interpreted" LANGNAME code will probably run with full asterisk scheduling priority and full permissions to hang the system in case of a 100% CPU loop. One nice thing about AGI/CGI: simplicity. No need for a restart/reload. You can easily run them outside of asterisk/apache. Perl's CGI module makes this even simpler. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
